GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 677199
GNOME Sound Recorder does not record in 3.4
Last modified: 2014-08-28 14:16:45 UTC
Created attachment 215338 [details] screenshot In gnome 3.4, I am now unable to record sounds, although my microphone is recognized fine by pulseaudio. The problem seems rather to be that g-s-r is unable to set up its choices of codecs with gstreamer 0.10.36. When I press the record button, I get: (gnome-sound-recorder:18856): GStreamer-WARNING **: Element 'gconfaudiosource' already has parent
Confirming on Gnome 3.4.1, gnome-sound-recorder 2.91.2, gstreamer 0.10.36.
Can this be confirmed as I get this in Fedora 17 with Gnome 3.4 as well? I get slightly different output on clicking the record button but either way it doesnt work. (gnome-sound-recorder:6893): GStreamer-WARNING **: Element 'gconfaudiosource' already has parent Wasn't there a Vala rewrite/redesign proposed for this? I'd like to try and help if I can be given a bit of direction as I think that recording is a fairly useful part of a default desktop and I've added the ui-review keyword as I think it needs a bit of love!
I too have this issue in 3.4.0, although I don't receive any messages on the command line. This is in Fedora 18.
Affects Ubuntu 14.04: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-media/+bug/1157654>
g-s-r is a completely different application since 3.10 and newer, so my bug report is not relevant anymore.
@ Jean-François Fortin Tam Since 3.4 is a supported GNOME version, as explained in <https://wiki.gnome.org/Bugsquad/TriageGuide>, this bug report is still relevant.
WARNING: By resolving this bug as obsolete, gnome-media will be kept broken in the future and current Debian and Ubuntu releases.
Reopened again in <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735592>
Could you please give me a link pointing to a place where GNOME (or maintainers of this individual module) state that 3.4 is supported right now? 3.4 is over two years old, so I would be very surprised by that. GNOME module maintainers typically do not support anything older than the latest stable release for roughly six months. And since the bug is actually solved by the newest version, then I consider it "OBSOLETE" rather than "WONTFIX". "Supported" by Debian maybe? Then Debian is free to patch and maintain their own version downstream if they think it's worth doing that instead of packaging the new version that actually works out of the box. The old gnome-sound-recorder was pretty much unmaintained since 2011. The new sound recorder has been written from scratch in a different programming language in 2013. It's not like anyone is going to go back and provide fixes for a two years old bug in the old unmaintained application when nobody was doing it in the first place. Filing a duplicate bug report is not going to change anything to that fact, unfortunately.
*** Bug 735592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
@ Jean-François Fortin Tam: Okay: I'm going to ask the downstream maintainers to upgrade this package instead. Thank you.