GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 604427
totem fails to play a video's audio to network pulseaudio server
Last modified: 2016-02-21 12:19:06 UTC
I have set up pulseaudio on a remote machine 192.168.1.99 to receive audio over the network. on another machine i can do: paplay foo.flac # to play to the local speakers PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.99 paplay foo.flac # to play through the remote machine. the same works with audio files in totem totem foo.flac # to play to the local speakers PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.99 totem foo.flac # to play through the remote machine. however if the file is a video file, then when i do PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.99 totem foo2.mov i just get the picture shown, and silence. the audio should play through the network ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Nov 21 18:06:22 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20091015) NonfreeKernelModules: openafs Package: totem 2.28.2-0ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-15.50-generic SourcePackage: totem Uname: Linux 2.6.31-15-generic x86_64 originally reported by me at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/486369
It's not just Totem, any GStreamer using application would have the same problem. Could you please double-check that: PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.99 gst-launch audiotestsrc ! pulsesink fails to play the test sound as well?
PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.99 gst-launch audiotestsrc ! pulsesink plays a tone on the the speaks connected to 192.168.1.99 its just when video is involved that the audio is not played. i tried PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.99 gst-launch filesrc location=foo.mov' ! decodebin name=decoder decoder. ! queue ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! pulsesink decoder. ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink and that plays silently. however i discover that with an ogg video file, the audio did play remotely, both with gst-launch and totem
I have issues that might be related. I use a remote Pulseaudio server and kde with phonon's gstreamer backend, but I have Gnome apps installed as well (Rhythmbox, totem, etc.). Audio players work fairly well (amarok and rhythmbox) but when it comes to video none of them works. Audio sounds cranky and just some video frames are displayed from time to time. As it is an old bug, is there any solution already?
Sounds like a clock problem with the remote PA server.
Can someone still reproduce this with up-to-date pulseaudio and GStreamer 1.0 or newer?
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment. Thanks!