Bug 92786

Summary:	gstplay patch to support playing via non-OSS output methods
Product:	[Applications] juk	Reporter:	Justin Mason <jm-kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Scott Wheeler <wheeler>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	patch to gst/kde/gstplay/play.{cpp,h} to support KGST_SINK env var

Description Justin Mason 2004-11-06 04:06:29 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

Hi there.

This is an upstream report of the following Debian bug:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=268114
nothing seems to be happening there at least.   cut and paste:


I'm a keen JuK user, and at the same time run into situations every day where I need to listen to other audio apps on the same machine.  To date I've been working around this by saving all playlists and quitting JuK, but being able to play sound while JuK is running is obviously a lot more optimal.

JuK uses kgst, and kgst hardcodes the use of "osssink".

This patch adds a simple method to gst/kde/gstplay/play.cpp to use an environment variable, KGST_SINK, which specifies the target sink to use for gstreamer output.  So for example:

    export KGST_SINK=artsdsink
    juk &
    artsplay ~/mp3/foo.mp3
    [hit play in juk]

does software mixing. If KGST_SINK is unset, it'll default back to "osssink" as before.

I'd *really* appreciate if this could be applied...

--j.

Comment 1 Justin Mason 2004-11-06 04:07:57 UTC

Created attachment 8188 [details]
patch to gst/kde/gstplay/play.{cpp,h} to support KGST_SINK env var

here's the patch that implements the env var.

Comment 2 Justin Mason 2004-11-06 04:12:13 UTC

btw, this is related to bug 76468; it's the same patch.  Scott Wheeler notes there that "this will be changed in the next release", but it's unclear what component he's talking about.  if it's the gst bindings, here's the gst-specific bug for that.

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2004-11-08 10:28:12 UTC

If anyone at kde.org can change it then Scott.

Comment 4 Scott Wheeler 2004-11-08 11:22:58 UTC

Actually I just upgraded JuK to use GStreamer 0.8 and there's now a config entry there that allows changing the sink.

In ~/.kde/share/config/jukrc just add:

[GStreamerPlayer]
SinkName=artsdsink

At some point before KDE 4 I'll be updating the bindings to GStreamer 1.0 (or 0.10 -- whatever they've decided to call it) and at that point I'll probably include a KControl module for changing the GStreamer settings.