phonon tab does not detect installed phonon and gstreamer

[Geoffrey Perez]

Binary package hint: qt4-qtconfig

I'm running Intrepid, and have packages qt4-qtconfig 4.4.3-0ubuntu1, phonon 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu1, libgstreamer 0.10.21-4, and phonon-backend-gstreamer 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu1 installed. qtconfig says that the "Phonon GStreamer backend [is] not available", when it should be.

Source package is qt4-x11.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Technically Qt is correct here; we don't compile phonon as it is distributed by Qt, so it would make sense that it can't find it where it wants to. We use the more-updated phonon sources as distributed alongside KDE. You can configure frontends, backends, etc from System Settings in KDE.

See bug 253854 about Qt phonon.

[Gustavo A. Díaz (gdiaz)]

Yeah... but this is a problem for Qt4 apps and related ones (PyQt, and so
on), Since we need Qt4 phonon lib to work. So i think Kubuntu devs should
provide a way to have the phonon libs from Qt4. Cause now, even id i provide
the Qt4 packages of phonon, it conflicts with the KDE ones.

2008/11/4 Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden>

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 253854 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253854
>
> Technically Qt is correct here; we don't compile phonon as it is
> distributed by Qt, so it would make sense that it can't find it where it
> wants to. We use the more-updated phonon sources as distributed
> alongside KDE. You can configure frontends, backends, etc from System
> Settings in KDE.
>
> See bug 253854 about Qt phonon.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 253854
> Needed libphonon enabled in Qt4 compilation/packaging
>
> --
> phonon tab does not detect installed phonon and gstreamer
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/293418
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug (via bug 253854).
>

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GDNet Projects
www.gdnet.com.ar

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

Devs claim this is fixed in Karmic.

I beg to differ.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Wrongly a duplicate then. We are using Qt Phonon, though.

[Gustavo A. Díaz (gdiaz)]

When this will be fixed guys? come on... Now we are in Karmic and will always have problems with Qt4 phonon?

[andypiper (andypiperuk)]

I've tried installing all the phonon related packages in Karmic and still qt4-settings shows the Phonon tab with everything greyed out.

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

Shame that this won't get fixed for Lucid.

[Eric Appleman (erappleman)]

Still nothing for Precise.

Pathetic.

[Niels Mayer (nielsmayer)]

I'm still seeing this issue on 12.04.2 LTS using potentially updated package qt4-qtconfig from 4:4.8.1-0ubuntu5~precise1~test1
via 'ppa:ubuntu-sdk-team/ppa'

How would I go about bypassing pulseaudio (which seems to be the default sink for all Qt apps) and entering the desired ALSA device directly?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.