[kde-freebsd] Sound issues with a fresh installation

[Oleg Nauman]

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:20 AM, David Naylor <naylor.b.david at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I recently did a clean installation of KDE however sound did not work.  The
> details follow.
>
> Fix:
>
> To fix the issue I did the following:
> # pkg delete -f phonon-gstreamer
> # pkg install phonon-vlc
>
> Note:
>
> If a command like `ogg123` or a application like `vlc` does not work then
> your
> problem is not with KDE but with a lower level on the FreeBSD sound stack.
>
> Explanation:
>
> Initially gstreamer comes installed with two sinks: pulseaudio and oss.
> However, pulseaudio does not work and that is selected as the default sink
> by
> autoaudiosink.  Uninstalling the gstreamer pulseaudio packages fixes this
> issue.
>
> GStreamer was then capable of actually playing audio (see [1] for the
> command
> to use).  The issue was phonon-gstreamer was not working itself.  My
> attempts
> to debug phonon haven't yielded any clues [1].
>
> I then tried to use a different phonon backend by installing the vlc and
> xine
> backend however KDE did not honour my ordering of preferred backends (even
> after a logout/login).  The only way I could get phonon to use vlc was to
> make
> it the only option.
>
> Questions:
>
>  - Can anyone else verify:
>   - phonon-gstreamer failes to play audio?
>   - phonon fails to honour backend preference?
>   - audio does not work out of the box?
>

 I can confirm that phonon-gstreamer fails to play audio and video on both
of my KDE installations ( laptop and desktop ).
Switching from Gstreamer to VLC fixes the issue with video playback in
Dragon as well as the issue with KDE system sound.
It would be nice to see default phonon backend switched from Gstreamer and
VLC.

 - Any hints on getting gstreamer to work?
>  - Is this a new development (I think the latest update [2] caused this
> issue)?
>
> Please note that sound via OSS worked out of the box.
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] https://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Debugging/Phonon
> [2] All the above is on a "binary only" system by installing (and updating)
> from the pkgng repository.
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