Bug 188444

Summary: playback is broken in Amarok and JuK using phonon gstreamer backend (Playback device falling back to default)
Product: [Unmaintained] phonon-backend-gstreamer Reporter: Simon80
Component: generalAssignee: Matthias Kretz <kretz>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: andreas_nordal_4, dimitris.kalamaras, ilteryuksel, ivo, jason.mours, kapil_8323, kde, kdebugzilla-71, marokanski.kazak, martin.sandsmark, mpyne, myriam, pavol, pdezac-linux, raphael.ackermann, sagiben, sitter, thruminds, ypmartin
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Screenshot of phonon-gstreamer related popup
New crash information added by DrKonqi
New crash information added by DrKonqi
New crash information added by DrKonqi
New crash information added by DrKonqi

Description Simon80 2009-03-30 03:20:02 UTC
Version:           3.2.2 (using 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1), Kubuntu packages)
Compiler:          cc
OS:                Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.28-11-generic

When running Amarok or JuK with only the gstreamer backend of phonon installed, I get the popup shown in the attached screenshot at startup, and playback only sometimes works. When playback fails, there are no errors printed to stdout, and no indication of what could be wrong in the UI. Amarok sometimes displays a box saying that there have been too many errors and that it is stopping playback, while JuK seems to do nothing. Both cases are confusing for the user.

With the Xine backend installed, I've had no similar problems so far.
Comment 1 Simon80 2009-03-30 03:22:40 UTC
Created attachment 32472 [details]
Screenshot of phonon-gstreamer related popup
Comment 2 Simon80 2009-03-30 03:24:33 UTC
Also note that in systemsettings, the test button work, and yet these sound problems occur nevertheless.

This is occurring on an up to date version of Ubuntu 9.04.
Comment 3 Dimitris Kalamaras 2009-04-29 11:57:53 UTC
The same problem occurs in my Ubuntu 9.04 final. I solved it by installing phonon-backend-xine. Nevertheless, for some reason, Amarok sound volume doesn't obey the settings of gnome-volume-applet...
Comment 4 Pavol Klačanský 2009-08-31 21:50:59 UTC
This problem occurs on Archlinux, I've switched to Xine backend
Comment 5 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-11-08 15:19:48 UTC
Added information to title.
Comment 6 Jonathan Thomas 2009-11-08 15:20:44 UTC
*** Bug 190979 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-11-08 22:39:36 UTC
*** Bug 203879 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-11-15 22:10:26 UTC
*** Bug 210246 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-11-15 22:10:49 UTC
*** Bug 214568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Myriam Schweingruber 2009-11-15 22:10:57 UTC
*** Bug 205429 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-02-17 08:33:13 UTC
*** Bug 226229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-02-17 08:33:35 UTC
*** Bug 227301 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-02-28 10:09:14 UTC
*** Bug 228757 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-04-06 09:11:16 UTC
Is this still valid with KDE SC 4.4.2?
Comment 15 Myriam Schweingruber 2010-05-03 10:11:41 UTC
Closing for lack of feedback. Please only reopen if you can reproduce this with the latest KDE SC 4.4.2/Phonon 4.4.0 or later and a recent gstreamer version.
Comment 16 Raphael Ackermann 2010-05-13 16:04:17 UTC
Created attachment 43542 [details]
New crash information added by DrKonqi

changing phonon backend from xine to gstreamer. also got the warning: too many errors found. closing.

this is on kubuntu 10.04
Comment 17 Petar Petrov 2010-05-14 07:06:04 UTC
Created attachment 43561 [details]
New crash information added by DrKonqi

Amarok still crashes when i switch to gstreamer. I'm using KDE4.4.3 and Phonon 4.4.1
Comment 18 Petar Petrov 2010-05-14 07:16:50 UTC
(In reply to comment #17)
> Created an attachment (id=43561) [details]
> New crash information added by DrKonqi
> 
> Amarok still crashes when i switch to gstreamer. I'm using KDE4.4.3 and Phonon
> 4.4.1

I have to give more info about the crash. Firts the sound stops when i switch from xine to gstreamer. When i exit and start amarok it crashes. But when i start it for 2nd, 3rd and etc. time the crashes stop and the music is playing normally.

Regards,
Petar
Comment 19 Andreas Nordal 2010-11-11 14:03:44 UTC
Created attachment 53320 [details]
New crash information added by DrKonqi

amarok (2.3.2) on KDE Platform 4.5.2 (KDE 4.5.2) using Qt 4.7.0

- What I was doing when the application crashed:
Amarok crashed when changing Phonon backend from Gstreamer to Xine while playing music.

- Unusual behavior I noticed:
Before changing from Gstreamer, the sound stuttered so much that the music was unrecognisable. That was not the case yesterday, after I changed from Xine to Gstreamer in order to seek in FLAC files.

-- Backtrace (Reduced):
#11 0x00007f0e96abed08 in Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaNode::disconnectNode (this=0x231c220, obj=0x31bb8e0) at /usr/src/debug/phonon-4.4.2/gstreamer/medianode.cpp:203
#12 0x0000003d86e2795d in Phonon::PathPrivate::executeTransaction (this=<value optimized out>, disconnections=..., connections=...) at /usr/src/debug/phonon-4.4.2/phonon/path.cpp:316
#13 0x0000003d86e2816f in Phonon::PathPrivate::phononObjectDestroyed (this=0x2329d60, mediaNodePrivate=0x220c870) at /usr/src/debug/phonon-4.4.2/phonon/path.cpp:408
#14 0x0000003d86e268bc in Phonon::MediaNodePrivate::~MediaNodePrivate (this=0x220c870, __in_chrg=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/phonon-4.4.2/phonon/medianode.cpp:71
#15 0x0000003d86e26631 in ~MediaObjectPrivate (this=0x220c870, __in_chrg=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/phonon-4.4.2/phonon/mediaobject_p.h:42
Comment 20 Alfonso Guerra 2010-11-20 18:10:48 UTC
Created attachment 53583 [details]
New crash information added by DrKonqi

Crashed when closing from system tray
Comment 21 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-01-04 13:55:43 UTC
*** Bug 261848 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 22 Harald Sitter 2011-01-05 19:06:44 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 210427 ***
Comment 23 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-04-27 21:15:05 UTC
reassigning to the new bugzilla product for better bug tracing of the various backends. Sorry for the noise.