Re: Phonon and pulseaudio
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 15:43:14 -0600, Seb wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:08:25 +0100, Frédéric Burlet wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 10:46:47 PM Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 18:25:52 +0100, Frédéric Burlet wrote:
> >> > Hi,
>
> >> > I recently "dist-upgraded" my debian unstable and since then I
> >> > don't have sound anymore in KDE.
>
> >> > I checked what has been upgraded and I noticed that phonon and
> >> > pulseaudio have been updated.
[...]
> > I'm using vlc backend.
>
> I think the vlc backend is currently broken, at least in my sid system.
> I was also using it until I noticed that simply going to System Settings
> -> Multimedia -> Phonon crashed System Settings. I had to use the
> Gstreamer backend by editing ~/.kde/share/config/servicetype_profilerc.
> New vlc packages are on their way which will hopefully fix this. AFAIK,
> Amarok can only use the Xine backend to play *.mp3, but the
> phonon-backend-xine is not currently installable:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> phonon: Conflicts: phonon-backend-xine but 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1 is to
> be installed.
> phonon-backend-xine: Depends: libphonon4 (= 4:4.6.0really4.4.2-1) but
> 4:4.6.0.0-1 is installed.
I currently have these backends installed:
$ dpkg -l phonon-backend-\* | awk '/^ii/{print $2,$3}'
phonon-backend-gstreamer 4:4.6.0.0-1
phonon-backend-vlc 0.5.0-1
The gstreamer backend works fine for me, including playing mp3 files
with amarok (version 2.5.0-1).
The vlc backend also works here, but the output volume is much lower, so
I have to crank up both amarok's internal volume control and the kmix
control in the system tray. I have the impression that the vlc backend
has an additional volume control that modulates the other controls.
However, I did not investigate this any further due to lack of time and
motivation; I simply switched back to the gstreamer backend.
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Regards, |
Florian | http://www.florian-kulzer.eu
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