Em quarta-feira 25 maio 2011, Duncan escreveu: > Marcelo Magno T. Sales posted on Wed, 25 May 2011 21:14:00 -0300 as > > excerpted: > > Thanks for your reply. I have the phonon-gstreamer backend > > installed, but will try phonon-vlc as you have suggested. After a > > few days I'll post the results (got to give some time to be sure > > sound will not fail again, sometimes it lasts for a few days > > before failing). > > Do try it, but FWIW, I have a bit of new information. > > Upon updating my Gentoo installation yesterday, there was a change in > phonon's default USE flags, switching the default backend to phonon- > gstreamer from I believe phonon-vlc. Needless to say I kept the vlc > backend as I don't even have gstreamer installed and don't want it > installed. (In Gentoo, such options are controlled by USE flags set > at the time the package is built, normally by the user since Gentoo > is a scripted- from-source distribution, so keeping vlc simply meant > overriding the USE flag defaults by setting the ones I wanted.) > > But the important bit, the new information, is that according to the > gentoo package scripts changelog, from phonon 4.5.0, upstream kde is > defaulting to the phonon-gstreamer backend. > > As I said in my original reply, that blog I read was about a year > ago. It's possible they now favor the gstreamer backend now, thus > making it the default, or it may simply be bowing to the the fact > that so many distributions default to gnome and thus to gstreamer > already. I don't know. > > But, what I DO know for sure is my own experience, that the > phonon-xine backend kept giving me messages about disappearing > devices even tho it's the device on the mobo, and no, I did NOT > change the BIOS to disable it, and that all those problems > disappeared when I switched to phonon-vlc. As I said I've never > tried the phonon-gstreamer backend, and wasn't even aware that it > had the disappearing devices problem too, but with luck, switching > to phonon-vlc will cure the issue for you as well. > > Please do follow up when you're sure whether it's cured the problem > or not, as I really am curious, especially now that I know you're > using gstreamer AND know it's the kde default now. As I said, I > wasn't aware that the gstreamer backend had the problem too -- maybe > it's just luck that the vlc backend works so much better for me? > > The other possibility of course is that it's version-dependent. > Maybe phonon-gstreamer only matured with phonon 4.5, and perhaps > you're running an earlier version? > > But in any case it's worth giving the phonon-vlc backend a try, since > it did cure the problems I was having. If it doesn't work any > better, you can always try something else. I've tried phonon-vlc backend for a few days and it indeed does not fail as the gstreamer one does. However, KDE sound events play somewhat weird with the vlc backend. So, I have to choose between system that sounds ugly and another that sounds good, but only for a few hours before muting completely. :( I would like to try pulseaudio with the gstreamer backend (this was my preferred output device in Kubuntu 10.04), but can't make it appear as an output device. After I have installed all pulseaudio related packages, pulseaudio is available as a capture device, but not as an output device. Any idea why? Thanks, Marcelo ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.