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Bug#629197: amarok: xine backend: Output Device Preference list only contains Jack



clone 629197 -1
close 629197
reassign -1 amarok 2.4.1-1
severity -1 normal
retitle -1 outdated presubj wrt xine backend
thanks

Hello,

On šeštadienis 04 Birželis 2011 17:19:23 Stuart Pook wrote:
> On 04/06/11 15:37, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > It is some kind of misconguration. Anyway, try phonon-backend-vlc or
> > phonon- backend-gstreamer. xine backend is no longer recommended.
> 
> I'm sure that it is a misconguration but it was properly configured
> yesterday.
> 
> Ok, so I'll try the vlc backend. Once again I have lots of empty lines
> but this time followed by alsa, aout_file, oss, dummy.
> Show advanced devices is selected.
> Where are all my sound cards and most importantly my virtual sound cards?
> I can play music on the default alsa sound device
> but this is not the right device.
> 
> I have found the problem. When you upgrade kde you have kill the running
> kde daemons (I killed kdeinit4, klauncher, kded4, kio_http_cache_cleaner)
> otherwise newly launched kde clients don't work correctly.
> I use gnome  so I was able to restart kde without unlogging or rebooting.
> My all alsa devices are back and I'm using the vlc backend.
> It was http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628467 that gave
> me the hint to restart the KDE session. And the wikipedia module works
> again as well.

Yes, you have to restart KDE daemon after major upgrade.

> By the way when you run "reportbug amarok" it says
> 
> "If Amarok does not play anything, you hear no sound or it skips through
> songs, you are probably using Phonon GStreamer backend. To fix this
> either:
> 
> 1) Install phonon-backend-xine package and remove
>     phonon-backend-gstreamer package (with your favourite apt package
> manager)."

Indeed, that's a bug. I will fix this.

-- 
Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>

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