Comment 3 for bug 1255291

Hi,

as you've also found out it shouldn't make any difference for the sound if pipelight is used or not. In both cases the audio output is via wine and depends on the wine configuration. The message related to winegstreamer has nothing to do with the issue, in fact it occurs always.

How did you try to use winecfg exactly? You should run it like:

WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-browser /opt/wine-compholio/bin/winecfg

(Note: .wine-pipelight is only used when you use pipelight the regular way for your whole linux browser, when you use netflix/lovefilm-desktop or wine-browser the alternative wine-prefix .wine-browser will be used!)

Since each wine prefix has its own settings it will have no effect when you run winecfg without the environment variable. You also have a "Play sound" button winecfg, please check if there is any working configuration (try all possible devices).

If this doesn't help you can also try the suggestion mentioned here: https://answers.launchpad.net/pipelight/+faq/2444.

wget -O ~/.wine-browser/winetricks http://winetricks.org/winetricks
chmod +x ~/.wine-browser/winetricks
WINEPREFIX=~/.wine-browser WINE=/opt/wine-compholio/bin/wine WINEARCH=win32 ~/.wine-browser/winetricks

Choose: "Select the default wineprefix" -> "Change Wine settings" -> "sound=alsa"

Normally this shouldn't be necessary (since ALSA is the default settings), but some other users also reported that this was necessary to get any sound output at all.

Sebastian