| Summary: | VLC backend for Phonon doesn't work on HDMI | ||
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| Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] phonon-backend-vlc | Reporter: | Nicola Mori <nicolamori> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Harald Sitter <sitter> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | bcooksley, colin, fabo, jb, martin.sandsmark, myriam, nicolamori |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.4.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Arch Linux | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Nicola Mori
2011-10-23 13:04:01 UTC
Which exact version of the phonon-backend-vlc is this about? Hi Myryam, sorry for not providing such a basic information :) I'm using 0.4.1 version, obtained from official Archlinux repository (package name is phonon-vlc 0.4.1-1). Thank you for the fast feedback :) Do you have PulseAudio installed? No, I don't. Is it needed to make vlc backend work with HDMI? Should I try to install it? I did not understand if I should use or not use PulseAudio to make the backend work. Anyway, when I spotted the problem I did not have it installed and the backend did not work. So I installed PulseAudio but this does not solve the problem at all. I would generally say you should always use PulseAudio, but then as upstream PA maintainer, I would say that :) Can I ask if you saw the list of selectable devices change when PA was installed? if not, then something is likely wrong (such as not compiling vlc with pulseaudio support). The list of devices should be very much simplified and you should be able to see only the devices you have selected. You may need to change h/w profile in PA to enable the HDMI in this case. Please supply the output of "pacmd ls" and a screen shot of the device selection list. Please also refer to http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/KDE for some example screenshots of how things should look. Colin, I tried again with PulseAudio and this time things were much smoother. Devices list behave as you stated, and also phonon is now able to play on HDMI using VLC backend. So I'm satisfied with it and according to me the bug can be closed. Anyway, is this the intended behavior of VLC backend? If PulseAudio really is the only way to make it work on HDMI, then it should be written somewhere (maybe it is and maybe I should have search it more carefully, I don't know...). Thanks everybody for the precious support! :) Hi Nicola, Glad you got it working :) In theory VLC backend should work with HDMI even without PA, but PA is generally part of the recommended setup in KDE and pretty much all the major distributions do this out of the box by default these days. As our resources are limited, we do tend to focus on the "standard" setup primarily and the other configurations get less attention, so I'll leave it to Harald to see if he wants to close this bug or work on the underlying cause. Thank you all for the feedback. |