Bug 912798

Summary:	media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse is needed for spice-gtk to tran sound
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	464270342
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Virtualization Team <virtualization>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gstreamer
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description 464270342 2023-08-22 02:54:59 UTC

I installed virtmanager and use to run my Win10 VM, in Win10 the system detected the sound card but no sound in host.

I found that we need media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse to make sound work, but this package isn't in the dependency graph.

I believe we shound add this package as the dependency for spice(or spice-gtk?)

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2023-08-22 16:56:18 UTC

I suspect it needs any gstreamer audio output plugin that works for you, not gst-plugins-pulse specifically (though that's probably the best one to use when using pulseaudio-daemon or pipewire[sound-server]). The spice-gtk already suggests this:

optfeature "Sound support (via pulseaudio)" media-plugins/gst-plugins-pulse

Comment 2 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2023-08-22 17:03:39 UTC

I checked the code and it actually indeed specifically needs pulsesrc from gst-plugins-pulse, not generic audio sink (pulseaudio is a source instead too). That said, there's already suggestion for that, though I personally think it'd make sense to at least pull it in via USE=pulseaudio instead of optfeature.

Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev

2023-08-22 17:04:27 UTC

Correct: "pulsesrc is a source instead too"
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