GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 139598
gstreamer-properties audio-sink/audio-source/video-sink tests fail
Last modified: 2007-04-16 14:00:58 UTC
start gstreamer-properties hit the test button for audio-sink/audio-source/video-sink A message box appears. For the ALSA-Sink case: Failed to construct test pipeline for 'ALSA - Advanced Linux Sound Architecture'. If you try this a second time I get an additional message in the console: ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1057:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy This might be the result of a wong error handling. gstreamer and gst-plugins are rev 0.8 gnome-media is 2.6.0
I think this has been reported before somewhere. Will find the dupe later.
can you run gstreamer-properties --gst-debug=*:5 > out 2>&1 and then do the same thing, exit, and attach the report here ?
Created attachment 27477 [details] log of "gstreamer-properties --gst-debug=*:5" The attached debug log was created using gstreamer-properties --gst-debug=*:5". Output-Sink was ALSA. I pressed "Test", confirmed the error message and exited via "Close" button.
latest gstreamer versions had many fixes related to alsa, please retry with newer gstreamer (0.8.7, or wait 0.8.8 due for next week), gst-plugins (0.8.6) and if possible gnome-media 2.9.2 i remember having something similar in the past but the alsasink test works for me with current versions.
bug still there with gstreamer 0.8.8 and gst-plugins 0.8.6 gnome-media-0.9.2 not tried yet - can it be used with gnome 2.8.2? btw, te reported console message is gone
The failure to set up a test pipeline is because ALSA claims to support all rates, we set a specific rate and alsa tells us it doesn't support any rate after all. There's another bug report plus a try to work around it somewhere else, but it's not ready yet.
The rate bug should be fixed in gst-plugins 0.8.8. Can you reproduce with gst-plugins 0.8.8 (gnome-media version doesn't really matter)?
The bug is still there with gst-plugins 0.8.8 and gnome-media-2.10.0. Alsa version is 1.0.8 with kernel 2.6.11.5 currently. BTW, If I select artsd instead of alsa as default-sink then I get a segmentation fault. OSS and esd are ok. Artsd is v1.4.0.
Such bug on hoary with the current versions: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/8732
I closed the Ubuntu bug about it - nobody seemed to complain about it again.
The rate bug is gone, so I'll need a new debug log to see what is going wrong next. :-). Could you please run with GST_DEBUG=alsa*:5 so I can see what is going wrong?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!