Bug 168556 - More sinks to be available for GStreamer backend
Summary: More sinks to be available for GStreamer backend
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: phonon-backend-gstreamer
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5.0
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
: LO wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Harald Sitter
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: 281726 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2008-08-06 23:24 UTC by Alexey Chernov
Modified: 2022-11-24 02:29 UTC (History)
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Description Alexey Chernov 2008-08-06 23:24:50 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.1.0)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources
Compiler:          GCC 4.1.2 Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-4.1.2/configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-multilib Thread model: posix
OS:                Linux

I suffer some problems using Phonon GStreamer backend. It provides only very limited choise of sinks (maybe even only alsa sink and different devices for it, i'm not quite sure), which is selected by unknown criteria. It would be nice if it were possible to select sink manually (for instance, jackaudio or alsa or smth.) and then to specify some parameters (e.g. device for alsasink or client name for jackaudio sink etc.).
Comment 1 Matthias Kretz 2008-11-29 13:19:45 UTC 
Do you have kdebase (runtime) installed? Do that and you should get some better choices... But yes you're right that the device support in phonon-gstreamer lacks in comparison to phonon-xine.
Comment 2 Alexey Chernov 2008-11-29 21:06:42 UTC 
Ok. I think there were added some since I wrote, but I also noticed, that several (popular) sinks are "bad" in gstreamer itself (JACK, for instance), so maybe it's right not to provide them for selecting due to potential problems with stability.
Comment 3 Harald Sitter 2011-01-05 15:08:45 UTC 
Is this still a problem?
Comment 4 Alexey Chernov 2011-01-05 15:42:21 UTC 
Well, yes, it seems that only ALSA and PA sinks and their devices are enumerated.
Comment 5 Harald Sitter 2011-01-05 18:37:08 UTC 
Needs looking into then :)
Comment 6 Alexey Chernov 2011-01-05 19:59:59 UTC 
thank you
Comment 7 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-04-27 21:14:41 UTC 
reassigning to the new bugzilla product for better bug tracing of the various backends. Sorry for the noise.
Comment 8 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-04-29 00:06:35 UTC 
Which gstreamer backend version is tis about?
Comment 9 Alexey Chernov 2011-04-29 08:06:43 UTC 
I don't remember for what version it was originally posted, but now I use Phonon 4.5.0 and Phonon-gstreamer-backend 4.5.0 and it's still the same situation. GStreamer version is 0.10.32 with latest plugin packages.

For instance, I have only ALSA devices now in the list (everything compiled without PA). But, for example, JACK sink and source are already in *-good plugins for some time and it's good to have it in the list, too.
Comment 10 Myriam Schweingruber 2011-05-01 11:42:12 UTC 
Thank you for the information.
Comment 11 Torrie Fischer 2012-09-23 10:39:10 UTC 
*** Bug 281726 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Nate Graham 2022-11-24 02:29:50 UTC 
This backend for Phonon is no longer maintained or supported, and has not been for quite some time. Please use the VLC backend instead--which is the recommended and maintained replacement--and see if you can reproduce the issue there. If you can, please open a new bug report at https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=phonon-backend-vlc.

Thanks a lot!