no sound from miro on some files, no playback on others

[Robert Persson]

Binary package hint: miro

I'm getting no sound from Miro. I have reproduced this with a number of videos in different formats and from different sources, including videos from my hard drive.

In addition, some files will not play at all. These include an ordinary mp3 audio file (an episode of Système Disque from France Inter). In these cases the file appears to load, but the playback counter stays at 0:00 despite the fact that the interface is indicating that it is playing by displaying the pause button.

I am reporting these in the same report since I suspect they may be connected and may reflect an underlying problem dealing with audio.

I have checked that the volume control in Miro is up. I have been able to play a YouTube video in Firefox and music in Amarok simultaneously, meaning that PulseAudio appears to be properly connected and functioning.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: miro 3.0.1-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 2.6.33-23-realtime x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 3 19:28:28 2010
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: miro

[Robert Persson (ireneshusband)]

I have just run

miro set gstreamer-audiosink alsasink

and now I have sound and the mp3 audio podcast is playing. The HD videos still don't play, so that must be a separate problem after all.

I have never, to the best of my memory, specified the audio sink at the command line before, so the setting I have now must either have been installed as a default or else set during configuration at a time when my system was set up differently to how it is now. (Settings made at the command line are persistent, apparently.) Either way, something is liable to go wrong with the audio configuration in a way that is beyond what the average user could be expected to diagnose and fix. So either Miro needs to configure itself better and to respond to changes in the system's audio configuration, or there needs to be a setting accessible via the GUI.

[Peter Triesz (triesz)]

I have installed ubuntu 14.04 LTS WITHOUT internet connection, then I connected to the net and installed miro and I did reproduce this problem: the video started to play OK but there was no sound. (Other players played the same video OK, with sound.)

Previously I installed the very same distribution on the very same laptop while I was online and I did NOT have this problem. Same video played OK, with the sound.

To me this did NOT help:
miro set gstreamer-audiosink alsasink

What I did was:
sudo apt-get purge miro miro-data
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get install miro frei0r-plugins libfftw3-bin libfftw3-dev libroar-compat2 slv2-jack libtorrent-rasterbar-dbg ttf-dejavu gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libav-tools ffmpeg2theora python-gst0.10-dev python-gst0.10-dbg python-mutagen-doc python-pysqlite2-doc python-pysqlite2-dbg

(This was the list of "recommended packages" when I reinstalled miro.)

now the sound is OK.