Bug 518333

Summary:	Totem does not know how to use the sound subsystem without pulseaudio
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Peter Janakiev <malwkgad>
Component:	totem	Assignee:	Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	11	CC:	bnocera
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Description Peter Janakiev 2009-08-19 21:53:51 UTC

Description of problem:
Applications seem to know about alsa except totem, which completely fades the sound button and does not play any sound when pulse audio is disabled in any way (i.e. via asound.conf disable the hook to pulse or completely remove pulse audio from the system) 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
totem-2.26.3-1.fc11.i586

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Disable pulse audio (for example comment out the hook in asound.conf or just kill the deamon or completely remove pulse audio from the system) 
2. Start totem
3. Open a media file
  
Actual results:
No sound is played and the sound button is inactive

Expected results:
Recognize ALSA and use it as other applications (like rhythmbox for example) 

Additional info:
I have tested other media apps that i have installed, it seem banshee is also unable to use alsa directly, however in gstreamer properties panel I have selected alsa default. Sound record is also not able to record any sound. Does gnome need pulse to operate correctly? Why are the gstreamer properties not respected by applications that are actually using gstreamer?

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2010-04-28 09:50:46 UTC

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Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2010-06-28 14:11:31 UTC

Fedora 11 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2010-06-25. Fedora 11 is 
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