No sound, but Phonon plays test sounds

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 06 Nov 2011 Thomas Lübking wrote:
> Am Sun, 6 Nov 2011 12:48:35 +0100
> 
> schrieb Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org>:
> > Especially the ffmpeg and/or fluendo-mp3 packages are needed, but I
> > don't know if those are also split up in Arch.
> 
> No.
> 
> But i'd point pulseaudio (since it esp. can and does control volume
> per client)
> 
> Aside that i can still not suggest to use gstreamer at all (it still
> sounds crap due to obvious latency issues use vlc, xine or even the
> process based mplayer backend) i'd try to play some pcm wav in amarok +
> phonon-gst and if even that doesn't work (while phonon-gst worksin
> general) disable or remove pulse (don't forget to shut down the running
> daemon) and see what's happening.
> 
> As for fixing pulse/settings: i've no idea, sorry.
> 
In my experience, the backend requirement can vary according to the system.  A 
while ago I had a laptop and a netbook, both running Fedora 14, with the same 
KDE and Amarok versions.  One of them needed the vlc backend and the other 
needed the gstreamer backend (can't remember which was which).  Only one 
backend worked with each.  My advice, therefore, is install all three 
backends, and experiment to see which one works on your system.

Anne
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