ANNOUNCE: parole 0.2.0 released

[Liviu Andronic]

Hello

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 12:33 AM, Ali Abdallah <aliov at xfce.org> wrote:
> Since Totem and Parole have no sound, then this is a GStreamer problem,
> installation or configuration probably, i can't tell, i tried to search your
> problem but i didn't find relevant results, so best is to report a bug
> against your GStreamer Debian Maintainers.
>
I asked for help on debian-user, but didn't get any replies sofar. I
continued debugging gstreamer sound, though, and it does not seem to
be only a gstreamer-related issue. I can confirm that gstreamer works
fine by testing the sound in gstreamer-properties (selecting ALSA and
Default device), and by testing commandline via
liviu at debian-liv:~$ gst-launch audiotestsrc ! audioconvert !
audioresample ! alsasink

(gst-launch-0.10:30169): GLib-WARNING **: g_set_prgname() called multiple times
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: GstAudioSinkClock
^CCaught interrupt -- handling interrupt.
Interrupt: Stopping pipeline ...
Execution ended after 1972362610 ns.
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Setting pipeline to READY ...
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
Freeing pipeline ...


More interestingly, I get audio just fine in WhaawMP [1], another
gstreamer-based lightweight solution. To be exact, audio is missing
when in WhaawMP Preferences the audio device is set to "Default/Auto"
and app restart, but is present when the device is set to "ALSA:
Default (default)" and app restart. Unfortunately, there is no option
to select the audio output device in Parole (and Totem). Would it be
difficult to add this in future releases?

Regards
Liviu

[1] http://home.gna.org/whaawmp/