[kde-linux] Re: sound problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 11:03:13 Duncan wrote:
> But you already mentioned that vlc was having problems too, so phonon-vlc 
> may well not help either.  What's interesting here, however, is that vlc 
> itself is not a kde app.  If it's having problems too, then it's quite 
> possible simply switching backends won't help, as it seems the problem is 
> lower down in the stack.

I suspect that there may be a timing issue involved too.  I use a USB external 
sound card with phonon and the gstreamer backend - on this laptop the VLC 
backend doesn't work well.  Most of the time I have no problem, but from time 
to time I get those messages that something doesn't work and it's falling back 
to default settings.

Two good things to remember -

Phonon handles simultaneous sound inputs, so for many things if it fails you 
will be absolutely fine with the ALSA that it falls back to.  Secondly, the 
Phonon maintainer's blog implies that he got a lot of improvement at the 
recent sprint, and we will see improvements in the next release.

Anne
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