Summary: | vlc-2 + phonon-vlc = VERY low volume in KDE apps | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Jared B. <nitro> |
Component: | [OLD] KDE | Assignee: | Gentoo KDE team <kde> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | krinpaus |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Bug Depends on: | 431190 | ||
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Description
Jared B.
2012-06-19 18:40:42 UTC
phonon-4.6.0 and phonon-vlc-0.5.0 are in the tree since several months. Besides bug 406357 (error when cross compiling) I can't see any real showstopper, so probably stabilizing latest phonon/phonon-vlc/phonon-gstreamer releases would be an option? From this blog post (*), phonon-vlc-0.5.0 introduces compatibility with vlc-2. Probably this bug also is just because of the incompatibility between stable (Gentoo) vlc and phonon-vlc? (*) http://apachelog.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/phonon-vlc-0-5-0-and-gstreamer-4-6-0/ *ping* I see the same problem as Jared and the solution was just upgrading from stable to mentioned testing versions of phonon and phonon-vlc. Funny enough even if compatibility with vlc was introduced with these versions, vlc was loud as normal even after the upgrade, but many other applications like amarok were affected by this bug. AFAIK the 'problem' is introduced with vlc-2. They changed volume control characteristics from linear to cubic (or sth like this). In my case it not only causes phonon-vlc volume to be much lower than before, but in vlc (gui app) itself it introduces 'oversaturation' noises when volume is set to otherwise nominal 100%. Also some timing problems were observed on my machine with variable-bit-rate ogg files - I observed pitch variations during the playback. Personally I just chose downgrade to vlc-1.x Since VLC 1.x has now been removed from the tree, is there any official solution to this? If switching to phonon-vlc-5/6 fixes the problem and is the best available solution, can someone promote that to stable? (In reply to comment #5) > Since VLC 1.x has now been removed from the tree, is there any official > solution to this? If switching to phonon-vlc-5/6 fixes the problem and is > the best available solution, can someone promote that to stable? Have a look at "Depends on:", as long this isnt done you have always the choice to use testing versions. ahh. Thanks for pointing out the dependency. Completely overlooked that. As for the using test versions, yes, I know, but I feel that Gentoo should provide a solid, working experience by default, which is the stable branch. In this case, that's not currently happening as far as the phonon/vlc integration, which is why I filed the bug report to begin with. I just want to make sure that's not overlooked. :-) =media-libs/phonon-vlc-0.6.0-r1 stable on all needed arches in bug #431190, old versions removed. |