Bug 321155

Summary:	media-sound/phonon-4.4.1 No sound when using PulseAudio with phonon-xine backend
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabian Köster <koesterreich>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	georgi, me, realnc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Fabian Köster 2010-05-23 10:04:30 UTC

With phonon-4.4.1 and the phonon-xine backend I am having the problem that audio-streams from Phonon-Applications are listed in pavucontrol but there is actually no sound output.

The problem was discussed on the pulseaudio-discuss ML and the solution is given here:
https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2010-May/007263.html

Adding the two patches mentioned there fixes the problem for me.

Please consider including these two patches in Gentoo's ebuild for Phonon 4.4.1 until there is an upstream-version which includes them.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Emerge Phonon with pulseaudio and xine useflags
2. Configure Phonon to use PulseAudio as device
3. Run an application which uses Phonon to output sound (like Amarok)

Actual Results:  
Start pavucontrol and you will see a Audio Stream listed there for the Phonon-Application, but there is neither sound output nor does the volume meter show any activity.

Expected Results:  
There should be sound output.

Comment 1 georgi 2010-05-23 11:22:39 UTC

I can confirm this bug. Ever since upgrading to phonon-4.4.1, I get no sound in either Amarok or JuK, but VLC and Firefox work perfectly.

Comment 2 georgi 2010-05-23 11:57:15 UTC

Sorry for spamming, but I can also confirm the fix given in the link above.

Comment 3 Dror Levin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-23 12:09:34 UTC

Added the patches, thanks for reporting!

Comment 4 Fabian Köster 2010-05-23 13:32:34 UTC

Wow, that was fast! 

I can verify that the ebuild in main portage tree does work now. Thanks! :)

Comment 5 Martin Gysel (bearsh) 2010-05-24 07:08:26 UTC

*** Bug 321003 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6 Nikos Chantziaras 2010-05-24 17:23:47 UTC

I still don't see an update in Portage.  I just synced :-/

Comment 7 Dror Levin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-05-24 20:16:19 UTC

Sorry, I didn't revbump when I fixed it. It's now revbumped with the fix, so just emerge media-sound/phonon-4.4.1-r1. Sorry.