Bug 270618

Summary:	Amarok refuses playing after pause and unpause
Product:	[Unmaintained] phonon-backend-gstreamer	Reporter:	PallasBurko <rs205>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Harald Sitter <sitter>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	martin.sandsmark, myriam
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	4.4.3
Target Milestone:	4.5.1
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description PallasBurko 2011-04-10 20:51:54 UTC

Version:           2.4.0 (using KDE 4.6.0) 
OS:                Linux

I encountered a number of strange issues, which I will summarize in this bug report.

Whem I am playing a song and pause it, it often (but not every time!) refuses to play when I hit the Play button. There is a OSD saying that amarok continues playing, but there is no sound and the slider does not move.
It also refuses playing any other song  selected.

Interestingly, that behaviour continues after quitting and opening amarok again. So I assume that it could be something with the backend. However, I am no expert and so I can hardly go trough the whole software stack and determine the source  of this behaviour.

I found a similar description of behavior ind Bug 257875 .

Note: Amarok 2.4.0 on gstreamer backend and enabled Pulseaudio (!)


I will deliver more Information if needed.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Hardly possible. I seem to happen just by incident and whenever it want to happen. Possible magic involved.



OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.37.1-1.2-desktop
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-04-11 00:58:08 UTC

Could you please try with the Phonon VLC backend?

Comment 2 PallasBurko 2011-05-05 15:07:47 UTC

Yes, I will try it.
I will report back after it.

Comment 3 PallasBurko 2011-05-05 15:18:49 UTC

Works flawlessly with phonon VLC backend 0.3.something so far.

Comment 4 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-05-07 11:59:33 UTC

Thank you for the feedback, I suspected this to be a backend problem.

Comment 5 Harald Sitter 2011-05-07 12:48:02 UTC

Please get us a debug log http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Phonon#Environment_Variables

In particular also export PHONON_GST_GST_DEBUG=5 as this will give us gstreamer internal debug output.

Comment 6 Harald Sitter 2011-08-14 18:53:45 UTC

Closing due to lack of feedback from reporter.