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Bug 300684 - Auto use correct Sound Server
Auto use correct Sound Server
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: totem
Classification: Core
Component: GStreamer backend
1.0.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Maintainer alias for GStreamer component of Totem
Depends on:
Blocks: 309714
 
 
Reported: 2005-04-14 23:19 UTC by Paul Coates
Modified: 2006-01-22 10:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10


Description Paul Coates 2005-04-14 23:19:35 UTC 
When running totem I kept getting "Could not open resource for writing" errors,
I discovered this was because the Multimedia Systems Selector was set to sink to
ESD but I had Esound switched off in Sound preferences and was using OSS
instead. Totem should be able to detect that esd is not running and fall back to
using OSS instead of giving an error.

Other information:
Comment 1 Ronald Bultje 2005-04-15 08:24:25 UTC 
I'm close to finishing this in CVS. I have written an autoaudiosink. If you use
that as audio output in the multimedia selector, it will do what you say. We
don't use it as default yet because esound's a/v sync is quite bad.
Comment 2 Julien MOUTTE 2006-01-22 10:55:15 UTC 
autoaudiosink is now in use in playbin with GStreamer 0.10. It should fallback correctly on what is available and work. Closing. Please reopen if you get the same issue with 0.10.