2008/8/13 SeaJey
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> Maybe you should rebuild phonon with libxine support? What backend amarok
> use, xine or gstreamer?
Amarok 1.4:
Engine - Xine, Output plugin - oss, Device - auto, Speaker arrangement -
Headphone 2.0, works properly with good sound quality
amarok-nightly (current svn builds of Amarok 2 via Project Neon repo):
uses Phonon, there is no extra sound configuration
Phonon:
default backend - gstreamer, another backend - xine, no one produce sound
Tryed to export PHONON_GST_AUDIOSINK=oss4sink" in /etc/profile
After restarting Systemsettings Sound section crashing with error:
systemsettings(8085) Phonon::KdePlatformPlugin::createBackend: using backend:
"GStreamer"
systemsettings: relocation error: /usr/lib/kde4/lib/libkaudiodevicelist.so.4:
symbol snd_device_name_hint, version ALSA_0.9 not defined in file
libasound.so.2 with link time reference
phonon gstreamer is not compatible with phonon xine. the first one is very bad one and doesn't work well with kde4 and the second one has some breakage on trunk version. so to have it working then you'll need to remove one of them (i suggest reoving gstreamer) and then install the phonon-xine package (the 4.1 packaged one that only compiles with gcc version < 4.3.0) then install the oss mixer and access it through a terminal, check if something is muted and then try using it.
programs that use phonon backend should work if xine-lib is compiled with oss support, since phonon will redirect the sound via xine-lib. if xine-lib it isn't built with oss support (normally is not shipped with it since oss is deprecated in favor of alsa) then whichever application is trying to use the sound device through phonon will not work. also you should ascertain that another program is not blocking the oss device (happens if you have some older 3.5 apps that speak directly to oss) by being opened. if that's the case then maybe you should consider building pulseaudio and xine-lib with pulseaudio support.
dott. ing. beso