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xanax

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Registered: 2011-06-16

Posts: 6

[SOLVED] Rhythmbx and PulseAudio

Hello!

I'm having some problems with Rhythmbox playing music through PulseAudio. I suspect it's actually a problem with gstreamer and PulseAudio, because gstreamer-properties can't play any sounds through the PulseAudio plugin.

I haven't had to deal much with sound problems before. It always worked right off, and did so this time as well until I wanted to have several programs using audio and thereby set gstreamer to use PulseAudio.

I have set 'musicaudisink' to 'pulsesink':

[class@dust ~]$ gconftool-2 --get /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink
pulsesink

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Have been searching a bit, and damn, sound on UNIX is confusing! ESD, PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA, OSS, gstreamer, Phonon, aRTs ... How do you guys manage?

EDIT2: I just noticed Chromium/flashplugin probably doesn't pass through PulseAudio at all. GNOMEs volume control has no effect on its volume. This leads me to believe it's actually a problem with PulseAudio ...

Situation so far: Sound plays in GDM as well as Chromium / flashplugin (not sure which yet, haven't tried Chromiums built-in media yet), but not at all in GNOME3 or GNOME-applications. Worth to mention is that they stopped functioning right after I changed playback to PulseAudio in gstreamer-properties ...

So confused...

Last edited by xanax (2011-06-17 11:03:32)

xanax

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Registered: 2011-06-16

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Rhythmbx and PulseAudio

/etc/asound.conf

# Use PulseAudio by default

pcm.!default {
  type pulse
}

ctl.!default {
  type pulse
}

# Explicit PulseAudio device
pcm.pulse {
  type pulse
}

ctl.pulse {
  type pulse
}

# vim:set ft=alsaconf:

If I don't set pulse to default, ALSA will continue to work with gstreamer. But that's not what I want!

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Rhythmbx and PulseAudio

Is your system fully updated? gstreamer should automatically output to pulseaudio now.

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xanax

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Registered: 2011-06-16

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Rhythmbx and PulseAudio

Solved by removing ~/.pulse and ~/.pulse-cookie.

Last edited by xanax (2011-06-17 11:03:07)