Phonon oddities

[Christoph Spielmann]

On 21.04.2009 17:53, Ian Monroe wrote:
> 2009/4/21 Christoph Spielmann<spielc at gmail.com>:
>    
>> Hmm! Well i guess it makes kinda sense. I was in a hurry and not barely
>> awake when i wrote this
>>
>> I've been experiencing some really curious stuff when it comes to
>> phonon.
>>
>> As i don't need a full-blown desktop environment (i just use
>> some application from both kde and gnome mostly kde tho) i kinda created
>> my own window manager consisting of compiz, compiz-deskmenu and awn. One
>> of my fav programs is and probably will forever be amarok.
>>
>> Since kde-4.2.2 when i start amarok without doing anything phonon seems to
>> play music (progress bar is showing some activity) but i can't hear a
>> tone. I found out that i HAVE to start systemsettings before i start
>> amarok and execute the following steps to actually hear something:
>>
>> Go to "Multimedia", check or uncheck the "Show advanced devices" checkbox
>> and click on Apply.
>>
>> After that sound works perfectly but now this whole procedure starts to get
>> on my nerves. I tried to find out how (or better said if) i can somehow
>> automate this whole process using qdbus but till now i haven't found a
>> working solution.
>>
>> So does anybody experience the same issues and have a working solution?
>> Actually any input would be welcome as i ran out of ideas.
>>
>> I hope that's better now ;) Also i CC'ed kde-multimedia-mailinglist as they
>> probably know better what's going on here.
>>      
>
> That was going to be my suggestion. ;)
>
> You could try uninstalling pulseaudio. That usually fixes weird
> problems like this.
>    
You were right Ian. Uninstalling pulseaudio fixed it.

Thanks a ton!

Christoph
> Ian
>
>    

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