Bug 258692

Summary:	Phonon VLC streams are reported as "VLC media player" stream instead mentioning the application name
Product:	[Applications] kmix	Reporter:	m.wege
Component:	Backend: Pulseaudio	Assignee:	Colin Guthrie <colin>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	esken
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description m.wege 2010-12-03 15:42:21 UTC

Version:           3.7 (using KDE 4.5.4) 
OS:                Linux

Phonon VLC backend used in apps is reported as "VLC media player" stream in Kmix instead mentioning the application name (In this case: Minitunes) like it happens when I use the Phone VLC backend. Not sure, if this is a Kmix problem or rather a problem of the new Phonon VLC backend.

Reproducible: Always




OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.37-7-generic-pae
Compiler: cc

Comment 1 Colin Guthrie 2010-12-03 15:53:26 UTC

Please ask your VLC maintainer on your distro to apply this patch to VLC package:
I'll ask the VLC guys to cherry pick it to their 1.1.x branch (it's already in master).

http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/vlc/current/SOURCES/0100-pulse-Use-the-user-agent-variable-for-the-client-nam.patch?revision=601141&view=markup

Comment 2 Colin Guthrie 2010-12-03 17:33:42 UTC

This has now been pushed to the 1.1.x branch in VLC and should be part of the 1.1.6 (I think) whenever it arrives. Apologies for not asking for it to be pushed in there before now (I wrote it in June!)