Testing anomalies - help needed

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Harald told me to uninstall phonon-backend-vlc, and install
phonon-backend-null, which I did. However, when Amarok starts up,
after a restart of KDE:

bool Phonon::FactoryPrivate::createBackend() Phonon backend "VLC"
version "0.5.92" loaded

Whole paste: http://paste.kde.org/532784/

Diagnostics tab continues to report 0.4.55, as does the config dialog.
Also, now pgst doesn't show in the config dialog, although it is
built.

And Diagnostics continues to report that pulseaudio is not installed,
although it is installed from packages.

Any help?

Valorie

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, I've been attempting to test the newest Phonon (from git), the
> newest pgst tarball, newest pvlc tarball, and Amarok from git. Yes,
> everything runs, BUT Amarok isn't seeing those new phonon and pvlc
> builds, and thinks I'm not using Pulseaudio, which is installed from
> Kubuntu packages. For some reason, pgst is seen correctly, according
> to the Amarok Settings/Phonon/Backend dialog.
>
> Looking at the new Amarok Diagnostics dialogue:
>
> Amarok Diagnostics
>
> Amarok Version: 2.5-GIT
> KDE Version: 4.9.00
> Qt Version: 4.8.1
> Phonon Version: 4.6.60
> Phonon Backend: VLC (0.4.55)
> PulseAudio: No
>
> This after working with Sam Lade yesterday, and restarting KDE, to get
> to the bottom of all of this. BTW, I'm using Kubuntu 12.04, with the
> newest KDE release.
>
> End of the pvlc build:
>
> [100%] Built target phonon_vlc
> Install the project...
> Install configuration: "debugfull"
>  -- Up-to-date: /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_vlc.so
>  -- Up-to-date: /usr/share/kde4/services/phononbackends/vlc.desktop
>
> The cmake line I used for pvlc: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
> -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull $HOME/kde/src/phonon-backend-vlc-0.5.92
>
> Odd:
> $ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/plugins/phonon_backend$ ls
>         phonon_gstreamer.so
>
> <Sentynel>      looking at the phonon-backend-* packages
> <Sentynel>      it looks like gstreamer goes to the arch specific directory
> <Sentynel>      and vlc to the general one
> <Sentynel>      'cos that's not confusing
> <Sentynel>      oh hold on
> <Sentynel>      there's /usr/lib/kde4/plugins/phonon_backend
> <Sentynel>      as well as the qt ones
> <Sentynel>      I think the custom built ones seem to go to the kde4 one
> <Sentynel>      but the packaged ones to the qt ones
> <Sentynel>      so try renaming /usr/lib/qt/plugins/phonon_backend/phonon_vlc.so
> <Sentynel>      (this may lead to Fun when there's package updates of course)
>
> $ find ~/kde -name phonon_*.so
> /home/valorie/kde/src/phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.1/build/gstreamer/phonon_gstreamer.so
> /home/valorie/kde/src/phonon-gstreamer/build/gstreamer/phonon_gstreamer.so
>
> What's going on, and how do I fix it? Where is the diagnostics tab
> getting its information?
>
> Valorie
>
>
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