kaffeine (probably other kde progs) crash after a short period with pulseaudio
Bug #205300 reported by
Dirk
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #228487: can only have one audio output program working at a time.
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pulseaudio (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Go into kaffeine, select DVB TV (for instance), program comes up, television plays with sound.
After a short period, say 10 seconds, kaffeine will freeze, sound will stop. Sometime kaffeine simply crashes.
If pulse audio is disabled in Preferences->Sound (+ALSA selected) and the daemon killed (and waiting for gnome-power-manager to get over pulseaudio disappearing), then kaffeine and other KDE programs work fine.
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I can verify the crash/freeze when changing DVB channel after a short period when pulse audio is used. Kaffeine does this only when changing a channel and the DVB stream has been playing for a while. Changing channel on the beginning of the DVB streaming it works fine. I have pulse audio enabled in Ubuntu 8.04 and pulse audio setting selected in Kaffeine audio settings. The crash does not occur when alsa is used instead of pulse audio. (Kaffeine version 0.86, KDE 3.5.9)
I cannot use pulse audio in Kaffeine for DVB playing because of this bug. I suggest this is fixed as soon as possible because pulse audio is enabled as default in Ubuntu 8.04.
Some debuggin data from console before the freeze:
Film mode enabled.
Film mode disabled.
kaffeine: WARNING: KXineWidget: Skipped frames: 17 - discarded frames: 0
Film mode enabled.
Film mode disabled.
Film mode enabled.
Film mode disabled.
Asked to stop
pipe closed
Live stopped
Tuning to: Subtv / autocount: 3
NOUT: 1
Tuning delay: 0 ms
Here is some debuggin data on succesful channel change with pulse audio in the beginning of the DVB streaming:
Asked to stop .kaxtv. ts
pipe closed
Live stopped
dvbstream::run() end
dvbEvents 0:0 ended
fdDvr closed
Frontend closed
Tuning to: Subtv / autocount: 2
Using DVB device 0:0 "Philips TDA10023 DVB-C"
tuning DVB-C to 330000000
inv:2 sr:6875000 fecH:0 mod:4
. LOCKED.
NOUT: 1
dvbEvents 0:0 started
Tuning delay: 110 ms
pipe opened
demux_wavpack: (open_wv_file:127) open_wv_file: non-seekable inputs aren't supported yet.
xine pipe opened /home/janne/