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Bug 170719 - Totem: no playback without a soundcard
Totem: no playback without a soundcard
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: GStreamer backend
1.0
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
: 171929 307278 309208 309966 310687 311881 314855 349771 358138 368159 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 309714
 
 
Reported: 2005-03-17 20:55 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2006-12-05 16:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Sebastien Bacher 2005-03-17 20:55:40 UTC 
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/7488

"Totem (gstreamer) doesn't seem to play video files or DVDs without a soundcard
present. When I click on a video file or open it from Totem, the playback
doesn't start at all or stops very soon and the following error message is shown
(most of the times): "Failed to write data to the esound daemon". After closing
the error message, playback still doesn't work. I guess it would be good to have
playback working without a soundcard too.

Thanks :)"
Comment 1 Ronald Bultje 2005-03-29 06:41:36 UTC 
*** Bug 171929 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Ronald Bultje 2005-06-11 13:03:41 UTC 
*** Bug 307278 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Ronald Bultje 2005-06-30 16:32:21 UTC 
*** Bug 309208 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 suvi 2005-07-01 07:09:38 UTC 
Workaround for FedoraCore4 Gnome2.10:

In "Multimedia Systems Selector" set the output to 'Custom', and then add the
string 'fakesink'.
Comment 5 Bastien Nocera 2005-07-10 19:00:52 UTC 
*** Bug 309966 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Ronald Bultje 2005-07-18 07:25:36 UTC 
*** Bug 310687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2005-07-28 18:20:55 UTC 
*** Bug 311881 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Ronald Bultje 2005-08-30 21:52:15 UTC 
*** Bug 314855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Tim-Philipp Müller 2006-08-22 16:32:34 UTC 
*** Bug 349771 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10 Tim-Philipp Müller 2006-09-28 15:51:33 UTC 
*** Bug 358138 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Tim-Philipp Müller 2006-10-31 10:16:36 UTC 
*** Bug 368159 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Bastien Nocera 2006-12-05 16:48:49 UTC 
Annoyed me too much, so just like for the xine-lib backend, there won't be any errors if the audio sink doesn't work, you just won't have sound, or be able to change the volume.

Committed to HEAD and gnome-2-16

2006-12-05  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * src/backend/bacon-video-widget-gst-0.10.c:
        (bacon_video_widget_can_set_volume), (bacon_video_widget_new):
        Have _can_set_volume behave properly, don't fail creating the
        video widget if we can't create an audio sink and we're not in audio
        mode (Closes: #170719)