SlipStream, erm, slips the stream

[Thomas Olsen]

On Friday 21 January 2011 09:20:37 Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Thomas Olsen <tanghus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know, it was a bad pun ;-)
> > 
> > Before reporting a bug I wanted to check if anyone else experiences this:
> > 
> > My playlist usually contains a few (downloaded) podcasts and the a radio
> > stream at the end.
> > The podcasts play just fine - when one is over it goes on to the next in
> > the list. But when it goes on to the radio stream it kind of starts,
> > meaning that the OSD says it starts and the status line says it playing
> > but absolutely no sound..?
> > I have to manually start the stream to get it to play.
> 
> First, what phonon backend are you using? See Settings > Configure
> Amarok > Playback > Configure Phonon: Backend tab. Usually a choice
> between Xine, VLC, and Gstreamer. All available in packages, and all
> with various strengths and weaknesses. While Xine usually works best
> for me, it is unmaintained, and the future is VLC and Gstreamer.
> 
> Next, you might try running Amarok from the console: amarok -d
> --nofork and watch the output when the sound shuts down. Is Pulseaudio
> giving up, if you have PA installed? Or is the backend or phonon
> itself reporting a problem?

Thanks for a very relevant answer ;-)

I'll be back with details later.

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Thomas Olsen

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