Phonon 4.4.4

Hi all,
I just updated phonon to 4.4.4 in [testing].
With this release phonon devs splitted out the backends from phonon tarball and there is some major change.
I tested it with KDE 4.6 and everything works, I'd like to know if this version works with KDE 4.5 too, so I can move phonon and the backends in [extra].
Thank you!

The fun part is that gstreamer is recommend again and they put even pulse audio in:
Please note that the xine backend is no longer actively maintained and
we strongly advise you to not deploy it as default choice any longer,
but rather switch to gstreamer or vlc.
Also it is highly recommended to ship Phonon in combination with
PulseAudio as it improves user experience WRT default device
selection, per-application volume control in KMix and other
lovelyness.
As result of those 2 the xine backend will not work all that well
without PA on KDE 4.6. In particular I have been told that it will try
to get exclusive device access for one reason or another.

Similar Messages

In Windows 7, iTunes gives error message "An iPhone has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the phonon then try again.

In Windows 7, iTunes gives error message "An iPhone has been detected, but it could not be identified properly. Please disconnect and reconnect the phonon then try again."
I have a iphone 4S. It has been activated on Win 7 computer and synced. But overnight this meassage reappears.

I have same error except that i get it even when my phone is not connected.

Phonon, amarok2 and backend

Standardly in arch phonon is built without gstreamer support, only with xine. Amarok2 is freezing (playing is freezing) after few minutes (maybe only I have this problem I don;t know, but even if only I have it is important (: ) When I edited a phonon's PKGBUILD (delete a -DWITH_GStreamer=OFF), built phonon, install it, change phonon backend to gstreamer, all is fine.
I think You mainteance phonon without gst because of dependencies, but maybe 'phonon-gstreamer' or something like that is a good idea?

pressh wrote:fyi: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 09971.html
I replyed to this thread a few weeks ago, but unfortunately Pierre never answered to give any valid reason to not allow anyone to use gstreamer:
http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch … 03364.html

[phonon-qt4-gstreamer] Why pulseaudio is a mandatory dependency ?

I discover that pulseaudio is now a mandatory dependency for the 4.8.0.1 version of phonon-qt4-gstreamer package,
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extr … gstreamer/
but I don't want to use pulseaudio, I use alsa for the sound, the previous version of phonon-qt4-gstreamer doesn't need pulseaudio,
so why this change ?
is it a mistake from the maintener ?
the other phonon backend ( phonon-qt4-vlc ) doesn't need of pulseaudio, so it should be the same for phonon-qt4-gstreamer,
some people have problems with pulseaudio ( bugs ), so this change will bring problems if pulseaudio is installed when we want to install phonon-qt4-gstreamer 4.8.0.1

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … e29f00c8f6
If you want to, try installing it while ignoring the pulseaudio dependency, but leave libpulse in place.

Replace Phonon-Gstreamer by Phonon-VLC [SOLVED]

Hi,
i'm quite new to GNU/Linux and this is one of the thing i don't understand. By reading the archwiki article about phonon which makes you independent on any multimedia framework like gstreamer I switched to phonon-vlc backend since i use vlc and as i understand it, it should use vlc codecs in any multimedia app in kde. Obeying the simple arch approach i tried to remove gstreamer and its plugins because i don't want to double the task. But it surprised me that pacman wanted to remove half of my system along with some packages like truecrypt. Why? Whole my life i lived in this illusion that truerypt is a encryption SW, i never used it for playing multimedia!:) Anyway, what's the deal with gstreamer? Thanks.
Last edited by Atronach (2010-11-13 21:18:26)

I'm sorry, i meant the "-d" option to skip dependency checks.
But anyway, if i run just bauerbill (pacman) -R gstreamer0.10-plugins it refuses to execute because of "farsight2". If i run bauerbill -R gstreamer0.10-plugins farsight2 it refuses because of libpurple and telepathy-farsight2 and so on... if i run -Rs the same thing happens
so if i run -Rc it wants to remove kdenetwork-krdc spicebird telepathy-qt4 telepathy-farsight libpurple farsight2.
I tried the -Rc option and then re-downloaded spicebird and the other stuff but it wanted gstreamer0.10-base-plugins. Now i have these leftovers:
gstreamer0.10
gstreamer0.10-base
gstreamer0.10-base-plugins
gstreamer0.10-good
gstreamer0.10-python
gstreamer0.10-ugly

[SOLVED]Sound works only in phonon

Good evening,
I'd like to know why I can hear nothing. I've tried lots of solutions, but none has worked fine. But strangely the tests in Phonon work.
My sound cards are:
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: MID [HDA Intel MID], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC892 Analog [ALC892 Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 1: ALC892 Digital [ALC892 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
And the one that should work is the 1,0; I can tell you that because it works in Phonon.
- I've checked out both alsamixer and Kmix and the channels were unmuted.
- I've tried to set the default sound card using a global asound.conf.
- I've checked whether all modules have been loaded correctly
- Trying to play something with aplay, the device is busy
- In the UEFI, the audio is enabled
The issue is always the same:
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1022:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2, No such file or directory
I think I've written everything, I'm sorry if I haven't.
Last edited by Grant (2013-11-24 12:30:35)

I just had an issue with no sound after recent updates. Not sure it's the same problem you are having.
I found I had to open Audio Mixer, select Sound card: HDA Intel PCH (Alsa mixer), Select Controls, check box for Speaker and check box for Headphones. After doing this I found the Speaker volume was set at minimum (although Master and PCM were already set at maximum). Adjusted Speaker volume up and I finally had sound again.

[SOLVED] Phonon and libkhtml

Hello,
Due to delay in hardware repair, I did not update my Arch box since early september.
Now I have the machine back and updated my installation.
All seems well, except for one problem that I don't understand:
Since the updates were installed, I get the following error message from various KDE applications:
symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.5: undefined symbol: _ZN6Phonon19AbstractMediaStream8needDataEx
The message is thrown by Konqueror, but also by many other applications at startup (most important: Kile, which I really need for work).
Except for Konqueror this leads to non-starting applications.
I have installed the phonon-gstreamer backend as well as the phonon-mplayer-git backend. I also tried installing the phonon-vlc backend.
Can somebody point me to the reason of the error?
Last edited by gerald82 (2011-10-29 16:30:01)

denisfalqueto wrote:Google results show that kind of problem is related to incompatible versions of kdelibs and phonon. Are you sure your update was successful? Maybe phonon got stuck in an old version for some reason. Could you check with pacman -Q | grep -i phonon?
Thanks for the answer, help is very appreciated.
Didn't notice any errors during the update process.
Here's the installed versions:
pacman -Q | grep -i phonon
phonon 1:4.5.1-1
phonon-gstreamer 4.5.1-1
phonon-mplayer-git 20111025-1
Also kdelibs:
pacman -Q | grep -i kdelibs
kdelibs 4.7.2-2

[Solved] phonon conflicts with qt

pyther@tux: sudo pacman -Su ~
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdelibs: requires phonon
pyther@tux: sudo pacman -S phonon ~
resolving dependencies...
warning: provider package was selected (phonon-gstreamer provides phonon-backend)
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: phonon conflicts with qt. Remove qt? [Y/n]
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: phonon-gstreamer: requires qt
:: phonon: requires qt
:: kdelibs: requires qt>=4.5.3-4
:: mythtv-fixes-vdpau: requires qt
:: phonon-xine: requires qt>=4.5.2-3
:: polkit-qt: requires qt
:: soprano: requires qt
:: strigi: requires qt
:: vlc: requires qt
I'm not sure what to do here, phonon says it depends on qt (pacman -Si phonon), but apparently I'm getting an error.
Last edited by pyther (2010-02-01 17:09:26)

pyther wrote:Sorry for the noise!
Don't be sorry. I wouldn't have found Pierre's email without your post. I just upgraded to testing, and I had forgotten about reading the dev mailing list.
So, uh, actually ... thank you for posting!

[SOLVED] Amarok says phonon cannot play mp3 files anymore

It also says "too many errors encountered in playlist".
Does anyone know a fix for this?
ty
Last edited by dabd (2011-06-01 03:27:00)

dabd wrote:
JokerBoy wrote:I use dwm, and amarok it's still working. but I have phonon-vlc installed..
I installed phonon-vlc and configured Amarok to use this phonon backend and now I have sound!
Thanks!
Thank you. It helped me also .

Phonon settings reset each login.

This might not be a big deal, but it's really annoying.
Each time I log into KDE, I have to go to the "Audio Hardware Setup" tab and set it to use my sound card instead of my graphics card.
I don't even know why my graphics card is there.
Is there a way to save phonon's settings?

Further on this, the latest login today resulted in the mouse scroll setting being retained but not anything else.
Also I didn't get the Apple ID prompt.
Not sure what this means.
Cheers
Tim

[SOLVED] No sound in skype nor grooveshark but in phonon

I am stuck with this problem. I've tried it all without success.. (arch forums, google, ...)
I have snd-had-intel installed and in phonon (KDE) i can hear the sound. However, if I open grooveshark or skype, there is no sound. The most strange is that it actually worked several days before..
#aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC888 Analog [ALC888 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC888 Digital [ALC888 Digital]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
#lsmod | grep '^snd' | column -t
snd_hda_codec_realtek 282024 1
snd_hda_intel 22410 4
snd_hda_codec 80889 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 6357 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 74304 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19544 2 snd_pcm
snd 58362 12 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7153 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
#ls -l /dev/snd/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 Nov 10 12:12 by-path
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 7 Nov 10 12:12 controlC0
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 6 Nov 10 12:12 hwC0D0
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 5 Nov 10 12:12 pcmC0D0c
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 4 Nov 10 12:13 pcmC0D0p
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 3 Nov 10 12:12 pcmC0D1p
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 2 Nov 10 12:12 pcmC0D2c
crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 1 Nov 10 12:12 seq
crw-rw---T+ 1 root audio 116, 33 Nov 10 12:12 timer
Alsamixer also behaves quite strange. The volume is always down (anyway, increasing all the parameters doesn't solve anything).
What can be the problem?
Thanks in advance!
Last edited by mabuse (2011-11-10 15:57:04)

I've solved the issue uninstalling pulseaudio and instaling OSS. Now all is going flawlessly

[SOLVED] No sound with phonon-vlc

I have recently installed Arch Linux and everything's going pretty nice (awesome documentation btw) except for the sound.
I am using the VLC backend for Phonon.
I have two sound cards:
-Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
-Integrated on ATI Radeon HD-4850
I'm using the former. The settings for Phonon detect lists a lot of Audigy2 devices.
When I booted up and logged in, sometimes sound worked, sometimes it didn't.
Everytime I logged in Phonon said an audio device has been removed (lie) and asked me if it can forget it. I once clicked yes. Now there's never any sound.
I have looked at the troubleshooting page in the wiki and there was a solution for the first problem ("Random Lack of Sound on Startup"), I followed the instructions and created /etc/asound.conf and put this in it:
ctl.dmixer {
type hw
card Audigy2
It didn't do much good.
When I run speaker-test, I get this:
speaker-test 1.0.24.2
Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 1 channels
Using 16 octaves of pink noise
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
Playback open error: -2,No such file or directory
Any help is much appreciated.
EDIT: The problem was not with Phonon. The problem was that ALSA sometimes chose the wrong sound card as default.
Last edited by peterfaj (2011-08-08 07:53:40)

I'm having the same problem (after upgrading), but your trick doesn't help. I only have one device anyway:
# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P] (rev.4, serial:0x10021102) at 0x9000, irq 19
Also, I do have sound in a TTY console, but applications started in KDE (either in Konsole or graphically) don't have sound. When I start audacious, it says:
ALSA error: snd_mixer_attach failed: No such file or directory.
ALSA error: snd_pcm_open failed: No such file or directory.
aplay -l:
# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 0: emu10k1 [ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback]
Subdevices: 32/32
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
Subdevice #8: subdevice #8
Subdevice #9: subdevice #9
Subdevice #10: subdevice #10
Subdevice #11: subdevice #11
Subdevice #12: subdevice #12
Subdevice #13: subdevice #13
Subdevice #14: subdevice #14
Subdevice #15: subdevice #15
Subdevice #16: subdevice #16
Subdevice #17: subdevice #17
Subdevice #18: subdevice #18
Subdevice #19: subdevice #19
Subdevice #20: subdevice #20
Subdevice #21: subdevice #21
Subdevice #22: subdevice #22
Subdevice #23: subdevice #23
Subdevice #24: subdevice #24
Subdevice #25: subdevice #25
Subdevice #26: subdevice #26
Subdevice #27: subdevice #27
Subdevice #28: subdevice #28
Subdevice #29: subdevice #29
Subdevice #30: subdevice #30
Subdevice #31: subdevice #31
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 2: emu10k1 efx [Multichannel Capture/PT Playback]
Subdevices: 8/8
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Subdevice #1: subdevice #1
Subdevice #2: subdevice #2
Subdevice #3: subdevice #3
Subdevice #4: subdevice #4
Subdevice #5: subdevice #5
Subdevice #6: subdevice #6
Subdevice #7: subdevice #7
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 3: emu10k1 [Multichannel Playback]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Audigy2 [SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P]], device 4: p16v [p16v]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
aplay -L:
null
Discard all samples (playback) or generate zero samples (capture)
pulse
PulseAudio Sound Server
default:CARD=Audigy2
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Default Audio Device
sysdefault:CARD=Audigy2
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Default Audio Device
front:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Front speakers
rear:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Rear speakers
center_lfe:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Center and Subwoofer speakers
side:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
Side speakers
surround40:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
4.0 Surround output to Front and Rear speakers
surround41:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
4.1 Surround output to Front, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround50:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
5.0 Surround output to Front, Center and Rear speakers
surround51:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
5.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Rear and Subwoofer speakers
surround71:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
7.1 Surround output to Front, Center, Side, Rear and Woofer speakers
iec958:CARD=Audigy2,DEV=0
SB Audigy 2 Platinum [SB0240P], ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback
IEC958 (S/PDIF) Digital Audio Output
Edit: the upgrade of my system I just did included an upgrade from KDE 4.8 to 4.9. Maybe that has something to do with it, because it seems to be Phonon related.
Last edited by halfgaar (2012-11-18 19:47:23)

Phonon-xine break phonon-mplayer-git

Hello All. I used phonon-mplayer-git and all was fine. The old bug of amarok with no play next track in playlist make me to try phonon-xine. It was some buggy and I'am back to the mplayer backend, but it didn't work! When I start sound test in systemsettings I give this in console:
QP_LOGGER /var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/phonon-mplayer-git/src/phonon-mplayer/mplayer/libmplayer/MyProcess.cpp 69 LibMPlayer start Process started: "mplayer" "-noquiet -slave -identify -msglevel demux=6 -framedrop -nokeepaspect -zoom -colorkey 0x020202 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -volume 100 -prefer-ipv4 -ass -embeddedfonts -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -include ~/.mplayer/config /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg"
MPlayer Failed to read ~/.mplayer/config: No such file or directory
MPlayer Error parsing option on the command line: -include
MPlayer MPlayer SVN-r34344-4.6.2 (C) 2000-2011 MPlayer Team
MPlayer 176 audio & 379 video codecs
MPlayer ID_EXIT=NONE
QP_LOGGER /var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/phonon-mplayer-git/src/phonon-mplayer/mplayer/libmplayer/MyProcess.cpp 143 LibMPlayer finished Bytes still available: 0
QP_LOGGER /var/abs/local/yaourtbuild/phonon-mplayer-git/src/phonon-mplayer/mplayer/libmplayer/MyProcess.cpp 149 LibMPlayer finished Process ended: exitCode: 1 exitStatus: 0
file ~/.mplayer/config is exist and available for reading (and even writing).
any ideas?
p.s when I start command
"mplayer" "-noquiet -slave -identify -msglevel demux=6 -framedrop -nokeepaspect -zoom -colorkey 0x020202 -monitorpixelaspect 1 -contrast 0 -brightness 0 -hue 0 -saturation 0 -volume 100 -prefer-ipv4 -ass -embeddedfonts -nomouseinput -sub-fuzziness 1 -input nodefault-bindings:conf=/dev/null -include ~/.mplayer/config /usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg"
without any quotes It play!

I found the source of the missing entries. Somehow with quick-init alsa-oss sequence doesn't exit ( /dev/snd/snq) reloading the module snd_pcm_oss with rmmod and modprobe restores the missing entries like HDAudio ALC888 Analog in phonon-xine and make my capture device entry reappear.
Now to find why when quick init loads snd_pcm_oss, the snd_seq_oss module isn't loaded alongside.
Update : While snd_seq_oss isn't loaded, just adding it in my rc.conf doesn't cut it, I have now Alsa default device, oss default device, jack, and esd listed by phonon xine instead of HDA Intel (ALC888 Analog), HDA Intel (ALC888 Digital SPDIF IEC958) HDA Intel (NVIDIA HDMI), jack and esd. Audio capture device is not back either.
I suspect this has to do with the way qinit load modules, maybe it's because they are loaded before udev. back to some testing.
Update2 : As suspected moving the starting of udev before the module loading is the solution. Looks like modules are configured when loaded only and if udev is not available rules like : /lib/udev/rules.d/60-persistent-alsa.rules will not be applied until module reload. i lose some boot time but well whatever let's go shopping for ssd.
Last edited by ChoK (2010-09-02 10:54:54)

[SOLVED] Possible to switch phonon backend?

During my first Arch installation, I used all the defaults. I had distorted sound in my headphones. Then, because of some problems with dual-booting, I had to reinstall Arch from scratch. Thinking it might make a difference, instead of gstreamer I chose xine this time around. (It made do difference.)
Anyway, I've since learned that "xine is unmaintained and will not see updates", so I'm wondering if it is possible to switch from xine to either gstreamer or vlc backend without having to reinstall from scratch.
Last edited by ibrunton (2011-05-12 21:16:18)

do you know you have a systemsettings in kde? go to system settings > hardware > multimedia > phonon > backend.
personally I use the vlc backend for now, seems like the gstreamer backend is using some CPU..
choose from phonon-gstreamer, phonon-vlc, phonon-xine from extra and phonon-mplayer-git from aur.
Last edited by JokerBoy (2011-05-12 20:46:38)

Phonon/qt and qt/qtmod upgrade issue

Hi,
I am running Arch i686 with [KDEMOD]. When i do my daily pacman -Syu i get the following:
stefan ~ $ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
kdemod-core is up to date
kdemod-extragear is up to date
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace phonon with extra/qt? [Y/n]
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: qt conflicts with qtmod. Remove qtmod? [Y/n]
:: kdebase-workspace conflicts with kdemod-kde-common. Remove kdemod-kde-common? [Y/n]
even though this system *never* had KDE from extra installed or any other WM then KDEMOD.
stefan

Hi,
thanks for the repky! i tried both options. here is the output from 'no'
stefan ~ $ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
kdemod-core is up to date
kdemod-extragear is up to date
core is up to date
extra 418.4K 54.2K/s 00:00:08 [###################################################] 100%
community is up to date
archlinuxfr is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace phonon with extra/qt? [Y/n] n
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
:: qt conflicts with qtmod. Remove qtmod? [Y/n] n
error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: qt: conflicts with qtmod

Phonon 4.4.4

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for