Description of problem: When trying to use the alsasink to play audio it fails consistently. Using osssink and alsa's oss emulation layer works however. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gstreamer-0.8.0-4 (from core/development) [noa@marit slask]$ uname -r 2.6.5-1.309 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. set up a gstreamer pipeline with the following command: gst-launch-0.8 filesrc location="/usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav" ! wavparse ! alsasink 2. 3. Actual results: gst-launch-0.8: pcm_plug.c:882: snd_pcm_plug_hw_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed. Avbruten (SIGABRT) Expected results: something similiar to the result when replacing alsasink above with osssink Additional info: as an additional datapoint ogg123 from vorbis-tools-1.0.1-2 seems to be able to successfully use alsa output
The upstream bug is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134007 who in turn references an alsa bug at https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=0000116 It seems like the problem is hardware specific to my soundcard, identified by lspci as 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) Unfortunately the alsa bugtracker seems broken so I can't sign up.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116086 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.