Bug 449268

Created attachment 307305 [details]
Pulse audio plays flash audio, but not rythmbox audio.

I can confirm that this bug exist on x86_64 too. Sound work just fine if a use
"gst-launch filesrc location=someflacfile.flac ! flacdec ! pulsesink", and GNOME
system sounds  work just fine too.

If I open Rhythmbox (or Totem) and start playing, everything appear to be ok,
but the application does not show up in the Pulseaudio Volume Control and no
sound is coming out of the speaker.

*** Bug 449203 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Could you please try running gstreamer-properties, and setting the default
output to "autodetect"?

I got hit by this issue when I updated. Going into gnome-sound-properties and
putting back the output to "Autodetect" fixed the issue (some were set to
"custom", for some reason). gstreamer-properties did nothing for me, for some
reason.

I can confirm that #5 work. I tried gstreamer-properties, but non of the
available options worked.

the bug is assigned to pulseaudio, but no new pulseaudio flew in lately. maybe
it is a bug in gstreamer? or gstreamer plugins deployed by livna? does playing
ogg work?

gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.8-3.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9

gstreamer-plugins-good-10.8-3.fc9 doesn't seem to fix the problem for me. 
downgrading to 10.7 works fine.

fyi: upstream bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532295

(In reply to comment #9)
> gstreamer-plugins-good-10.8-3.fc9 doesn't seem to fix the problem for me. 
> downgrading to 10.7 works fine.

Should do, I applied the work around, and verified that the output of the
configure scripts was correct:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/getfile?taskID=640384&name=build.log

configure: Using autoaudiosink as default audio sink
configure: Using alsasrc as default audio source
configure: Using autovideosink as default video sink
configure: Using v4lsrc as default video source
configure: Using goom as default visualizer

i can repeat the failure at will.  if you tell me what to do (ie. is there a way
to turn on debugging in rhythmbox with some env. var?) i can produce any logs
you want.

Suggestion #4 didn't work, but #5 did work, now I can play music using Totem and
Rhythmbox, thanks guys!

*** Bug 449217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

As Remy mentioned, and Marek confirmed, the right tool to use is
gnome-sound-properties, not gstreamer-properties.

are you all saying that any user that ran against the buggy version once upon a
time (and now have the new version from testing) now needs to run
gnome-sound-properties, or that using it is a workaround while keeping the buggy
version installed, but that it should be unnecessary on the newer fixed version
10.8-3?

gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.8-3.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gstreamer-plugins-good'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-4867

(In reply to comment #15)
> are you all saying that any user that ran against the buggy version once upon a
> time (and now have the new version from testing) now needs to run
> gnome-sound-properties, or that using it is a workaround while keeping the buggy
> version installed, but that it should be unnecessary on the newer fixed version
> 10.8-3?

The update didn't solve the problem for me until I changed the Sound Playback
settings to Autodetect in gnome-sound-properties. Now sound plays fine for me in
both rhythmbox (original reporter: please take care with spelling for the sake
of search) and totem. 

(In reply to comment #17)
> (In reply to comment #15)
> > are you all saying that any user that ran against the buggy version once upon a
> > time (and now have the new version from testing) now needs to run
> > gnome-sound-properties, or that using it is a workaround while keeping the buggy
> > version installed, but that it should be unnecessary on the newer fixed version
> > 10.8-3?
> 
> The update didn't solve the problem for me until I changed the Sound Playback
> settings to Autodetect in gnome-sound-properties. Now sound plays fine for me in
> both rhythmbox (original reporter: please take care with spelling for the sake
> of search) and totem. 
> 

having to do gnome-sound-properties is a workaround only, and cannot be
considered a fix.  what is the real fix for this bug?  what is the real cause?
for me, simply downgrading to 10.7 fixes the problem without the workaround. 
what else has changed between 10.7 and 10.8

(In reply to comment #18)
<snip>
> having to do gnome-sound-properties is a workaround only, and cannot be
> considered a fix.  what is the real fix for this bug?  what is the real cause?
> for me, simply downgrading to 10.7 fixes the problem without the workaround. 
> what else has changed between 10.7 and 10.8

Bleh, you're right, the new version is still busted, because the work-around
mentioned upstream doesn't work.

Fixed in -5:
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=643626

Enjoy

works for me.  thanks.  by the way, the 'updates' page (bodhi) which used to
point to 10.8-3 now points to 10.8-5, and it inherited the comments and karma of
that old broken release.  that's a bit buggered, but at least gstreamer works!

gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.8-5.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update gstreamer-plugins-good'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-4867

*** Bug 450585 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.8-5.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

The update did the trick here, thanks!