no sound from miro on some files, no playback on others
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| miro (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: miro
I'm getting no sound from Miro. I have reproduced this with a number of videos in different formats and from different sources, including videos from my hard drive.
In addition, some files will not play at all. These include an ordinary mp3 audio file (an episode of Système Disque from France Inter). In these cases the file appears to load, but the playback counter stays at 0:00 despite the fact that the interface is indicating that it is playing by displaying the pause button.
I am reporting these in the same report since I suspect they may be connected and may reflect an underlying problem dealing with audio.
I have checked that the volume control in Miro is up. I have been able to play a YouTube video in Firefox and music in Amarok simultaneously, meaning that PulseAudio appears to be properly connected and functioning.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: miro 3.0.1-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-23-realtime x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 3 19:28:28 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: miro
| Robert Persson (ireneshusband) wrote | #1 |
| Robert Persson (ireneshusband) wrote | #2 |
| Peter Triesz (triesz) wrote | #3 |
I have just run
miro set gstreamer-audiosink alsasink
and now I have sound and the mp3 audio podcast is playing. The HD videos still don't play, so that must be a separate problem after all.
I have never, to the best of my memory, specified the audio sink at the command line before, so the setting I have now must either have been installed as a default or else set during configuration at a time when my system was set up differently to how it is now. (Settings made at the command line are persistent, apparently.) Either way, something is liable to go wrong with the audio configuration in a way that is beyond what the average user could be expected to diagnose and fix. So either Miro needs to configure itself better and to respond to changes in the system's audio configuration, or there needs to be a setting accessible via the GUI.