Bug 622776

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So RH is going to ship an enterprise distribution with broken sound in KDE? Way to go folks… :-/

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*** Bug 666292 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This issue was proposed for RHEL 6.1 FasTrack but did not get resolved in time.
It has been moved to RHEL 6.2 FasTrack.

This issue was proposed for RHEL 6.1 FasTrack but did not get resolved in time.
It has been moved to RHEL 6.2 FasTrack.

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This request was erroneously removed from consideration in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4, which is currently under development.  This request will be evaluated for inclusion in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4.

(In reply to Kevin Kofler from comment #3)
> So RH is going to ship an enterprise distribution with broken sound in KDE?
> Way to go folks… :-/

it seems this is still broken by default - have been testing kde in el6.4, and there are issues with choppy/stuttering sound with any programs that use kde sound system (e.g. juk).

if it helps anyone, i found that building updated packages for:

gstreamer-0.10.30-1
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.30-1 
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.25-1

and installing these seems to have got everything working correctly for me - no more issues with choppy sound.

process was roughly:

- download red hat .src.rpm files
- download newer version of gstreamer source packages
- update rpm .spec files
- rebuild
- install

hopefully that may be of use to someone else who is having the same issue, and stumbles across this bug.

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0666.html