| Summary: | vlc backend refuses to output sound to external sound card | ||
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| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] phonon-backend-vlc | Reporter: | Benjamin Schindler <beschindler> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Harald Sitter <sitter> |
| Status: | RESOLVED UPSTREAM | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | ahartmetz, bcooksley, cl, fabo, jb, martin.sandsmark, myriam |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.4.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 0.5 | ||
| Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
I should add that this used to work on earlier kde versions when I had the xine backend. Also, I think (need to check, can't easily reboot the maching), it works when I have the headset plugged in on bootup. In this case, the Headset got device number 0 and it sortof worked (had to restart amarok when replugging to get sound for example), but at least it halfway worked Are you using Alsa, if so, please check that you're added in the sound group and that /etc/groups has permissions of 755 (I had the same problem) I'm on gentoo and the setup is a bit different there. I'm in the audio group (as apart to sound) Apart from that, /etc/groups does not exist, I think you mean /etc/group. It has permissions 644 here. Why would it need the executable bit? Can you show me a link why it should need that? This was broken (simply not implemented) in Phonon-VLC, which I have fixed now. The fix should be in Phonon-VLC 0.5.0. Additionally, I've found a bug in libVLC that breaks setting output devices. A fix has been applied to VLC master and will most likely appear in (lib)VLC 1.1.12. For that reason this is an upstream bug now. |
Version: 4.6 (using KDE 4.6.2) OS: Linux I have a logitech headset which has its own internal sound device. I have the vlc-backend in phonon But when I go to the phonon device config, pressing play on the external card doesn't produce any sound. Also, amarok stays silent (even though it's highest in the priority). Sound is confirmed to work - tested with mplayer with -ao alsa:device=hw=1:0 and with the vlc player, by setting alsa output and selecting the headset as the output device Don't know what kind of info I should produce... so I just thought I'd post the output of /proc/asound/cards. I'm a computer scientist, so just let me know what kind of info you need and I'll provide Reproducible: Always 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel HDA Intel at 0xd6704000 irq 56 1 [Headset ]: USB-Audio - Logitech USB Headset Logitech Logitech USB Headset at usb-0000:00:1d.1-2, full speed