Gstreamer issue after update

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#1

Hello everyone,
I have updated my openSUSE 13.2 yesterday and after the upgrade I no longer have sounds in my KDE environment.

VLC works just fine, KDE & Amarok (2.8.0-33.1 from Packman) are not playing anything.
From the Settings/Multimedia page, I hear nothing when I test my devices (any of them!)

My packages are:


i | GStreamer Multimedia Codecs                            | application |                | noarch | (System Packages)           
i | GStreamer Multimedia Codecs - Base                     | application |                | noarch | (System Packages)           
i | GStreamer Multimedia Codecs - Extra                    | application |                | noarch | (System Packages)           
i | PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin                            | package     | 1.0.3-13.1     | x86_64 | Main Update Repository      
i | gstreamer                                              | package     | 1.6.3-65.3     | x86_64 | Packman Repository          
i | gstreamer-fluendo-mp3                                  | package     | 21-5.3.1       | x86_64 | Update Repository (Non-Oss) 
i | gstreamer-fluendo-mp3                                  | package     | 21-5.3.1       | x86_64 | openSUSE-13.2-Update-Non-Oss
i | gstreamer-plugins-bad                                  | package     | 1.6.3-98.1     | x86_64 | Packman Repository          
i | gstreamer-plugins-base                                 | package     | 1.6.3-61.2     | x86_64 | Packman Repository          
i | gstreamer-plugins-good                                 | package     | 1.6.3-70.1     | x86_64 | Packman Repository          
i | gstreamer-plugins-libav                                | package     | 1.6.3-3.1      | x86_64 | Packman Repository          
i | gstreamer-plugins-qt                                   | package     | 1.2.0-2.2.4    | x86_64 | Main Repository (OSS)       
i | libgstreamer-1_0-0                                     | package     | 1.6.3-65.3     | x86_64 | Packman Repository          
i | phonon-backend-gstreamer                               | package     | 4.8.0-2.4.2    | x86_64 | Main Update Repository

Any ideas?

#2

Some updates:
Using phonon-backend-vlc (all available versions) resulted to crashes and no sound.
I have performed a

zypper dup --using 9 (9 is the Packman repo)

without success.

My current kernel version is 3.16.7-35-desktop

#3

Yes.
The phonon-backend-vlc in openSUSE 13.2 requires VLC 2.1.x as included in the standard repos, it doesn’t work with VLC 2.2 from Packman.

You can switch vlc back to the version from the standard repos to fix that, but then you won’t be able to use restricted codecs (including MP3) of course.

I have performed a

zypper dup --using 9 (9 is the Packman repo)

without success.

“–using”? It should be “–from”…

Can you please post your full repo list?

zypper lr -d

Also, you probably should install gstreamer-plugins-bad-orig-addon, gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-plugins-ugly-orig-addon as well, but fluendo-mp3 and plugins-libav should provide support for almost anything.
And your problem doesn’t sound like a plugin is missing…

Try to delete the gstreamer plugin cache, ~/.cache/gstreamer-1.0/. Maybe it helps.

Btw, gstreamer (and Amarok using phonon-backend-gstreamer) works fine here on my 13.2 system.

And that not even the test sound in KDE’s settings work would suggest a problem at a lower level anyway.
Are you sure the correct output is selected, and that the volume is not set to 0?
PulseAudio (and kmix) does allow to choose the output and volume for each application separately.

My current kernel version is 3.16.7-35-desktop

It’s unlikely that that’s related to the kernel.

#4

Yes, it’s “–from”, not “–whaterverIwrote” :slight_smile:

I fixed it by downgrading Phonon to phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.7.80-2.1.4

Probably a bug.

#5

Probably not.
It’s the first time I hear about such a problem. If it was a bug, more people should be affected.
phonon-backend-gstreamer 0.8.0 is not exactly new either, it has been released as update for 13.2 shortly after its release in November 2014.

And as mentioned it works fine here.