"SDL failed to open audio: no available audio device" when selecting PulseAudio as audio driver

[Mathieu Marquer]

Binary package hint: kdenlive

Using Ubuntu Karmic, up-to-date.

When i'm selecting PulseAudio as the output driver in Kdenlive, I get the message "SDL failed to open audio: no available audio device" on the status bar when I try to preview my video. No sound is played. Selecting "auto" or "ALSA" works fine.

Please let me know if you need additionnal informations.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 2 21:52:28 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: kdenlive 0.7.5-1ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/kdenlive usr/bin/kdenlive_render]
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SourcePackage: kdenlive
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64

[sigdrifa (sigdrifa)]

Not sure it's a bug - I had the same problem and solved it by installing

libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

This removes libsdl1.2debian-alsa, but after that I had sound on kdenlive again with pulseaudio selected as audio-driver.

[Michael Soluyanov (crantisz)]

I confirm the solution by sigdrifa. Ubuntu 9.10, i386

[David Robert Lewis (afrodeity)]

libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio is installed, but still have the above problem when using KDEnlive.

Another bug fix as related in this 2007 posting:
http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=31

which involves installing libsdl1.2debian-all and removing
libsdl1.2debian-oss

Which is a big problem for me. If I do this, half my system wants to
uninstall itself. I have a lot of games and gigabytes of data which will
simply uninstall. Surely ubuntu should be fixed by default? This seems as if people have gotten used to living with a bug workaround instead of getting it right in karmic, thus causing a lot more trouble the further we move forward. My sound was not too bad in hardy. It is worse in karmic.

[Ken Sharp (kennybobs)]

Does the issue still occur in a supported release?