Bug#729067: [phonon] App volume controls have no function
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Schrober <franzschrober@yahoo.de> wrote:
> On Friday 08 November 2013 15:11:38 Schrober wrote:
>> The volume control in amarok seems to have no use at all. I've tested the
>> VLC and Gstreamer backend and it is not changing my volume at all. I would
>> have expect that the pulseaudio volume is changed for amarok but nothing
>> happens at all. Also switching the song doesn't seem to do anything (this
>> was recommended in some forums).
>>
>> This also happens with the KDE dragonplayer. BUT the volume controls in VLC
>> (the video player) work as expected and the pulseaudio app volume controls
>> are moving when I modify the volume in the video player.
>>
>> Any hints how this can be debugged further?
>
> I've verified that it works when downgrading libphonon4 and phonon to
> 4:4.6.0.0-3 + phonon-backend-gstreamer to 4:4.6.3-1. The phonon-backend-vlc
> was removed for this test because the vlc dependencies were a nightmare to
> downgrade.
>
> Then I've upgraded libphonon4 again to 4:4.7.0.0-2 and it stopped working. I
> can repeat these step again and again and come always to the same result. I
> cannot upgrade phonon or phonon-backend-gstreamer without libphonon4. Thus it
> is not possible for me whether this also happens with only these components
> upgraded.
You'll want the *.7 backends as well because of:
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon/phonon/repository/revisions/f278a93493ac04ce04d48e8e5b5158caa0621ce3
Or someone could cherry-pick that into the Debian packaging, a release
of .1 will not happen until the end of the month.
HS
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