No sound, but Phonon plays test sounds

[stefano franchi]

Well,

I solved the problem reinstalling xine, even though it seems to be
officially deprecated. But how do I know if I have the gstreamer
codecs installed? Here are all the gstreamer packages on my system:


local/gstreamer0.10 0.10.35-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework
local/gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.22-2 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugin libraries
(gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins 0.10.22-2 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Bad Plugins (gst-plugins-bad)
local/gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.35-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-base-plugins 0.10.35-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Base Plugins (gst-plugins-base)
local/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.12-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    Gstreamer FFMpeg Plugin
local/gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.30-1
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-good-plugins 0.10.30-1 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Good Plugins (gst-plugins-good)
local/gstreamer0.10-python 0.10.21-1
    Python bindings for GStreamer 0.10
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.18-3
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly plugin libraries
local/gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins 0.10.18-3 (gstreamer0.10-plugins)
    GStreamer Multimedia Framework Ugly Plugins (gst-plugins-ugly)
local/phonon-gstreamer 4.5.1-1
    Phonon GStreamer backend


On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi Stefano,
>
> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 15:01, stefano franchi <stefano.franchi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> After the last update to my Arch system, Amarok has stopped producing any sound.
>>
>> More precisely:
>>
>> If I click on a song, Amarok "plays" it: it updates the current song
>> widget, the progress bar advances, etc.. However, no sound is
>> produced.
>>
>> I checked the playback settings, Phonon settings, and everything is
>> fine. Phonon's devices play  the test sound correctly
>>
>> Other applications play sounds correctly as well.
>>
>> Where could the problem be?
>>
>> System details:
>>
>> Arch 64 system, Kde 4.7.3, Amarok 2.4.3
>>
>> Phonon with gstreamer backend
>
> Please make sure you have the gstreamer codecs installed as well.
>
>
> Regards, Myriam
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