Crashes with gstreamer backend

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Valorie Zimmerman
<valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I realize most people here aren't very enthused about Gst becoming the
> backend of choice for phonon, but it is happening, and will be shipped
> by default with the next Kubuntu. I've built it from git at Harald's
> request, and got an instant crash when I pressed play after
> successfully building and changing backends. Also at his request, I
> issued the following commands before starting up Amarok:
>
> export PHONON_PULSEAUDIO_DEBUG=5
> export PHONON_VLC_DEBUG=5
> export PHONON_GST_DEBUG=5
> export PHONON_XINE_DEBUG=5
> export PHONON_DEBUG=5
>
> and posted the relevant part of the output in the bug. Once I added
> gstreamer-extras and gstreamer-ugly-multiverse to the gst-good package
> I already had, I can successfully play the mp3s in my playlist.
>
> This is all in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=261356
>
> Why the post to the list: to ask why I got no popup telling me I
> needed more codecs. I though kubuntu-restricted-extras would cover me,
> but they are not included. Another note to the Kubuntu devels about
> this is next! But our users should be prompted to add codecs instead
> of Amarok crashing.

To be honest, if Kubuntu insists on making the questionable decision
to go with this backend (which I have explicitly advised against
multiple times), then it would be a nice gesture of them to help us
with debugging this crash.

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Mark Kretschmann
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