Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 378371
totem-xine crashes on PPC(PS3) with pulseaudio error
Last modified: 2007-12-09 19:08:16 EST
Description of problem: totem-xine (from livna repository) crashes with the error below when run on F8/ PS3. VLC will play, however there is no audio output. Confirmed that audio is working on F8/PS3 with soundcard detection program, rdesktop with redirected audio, and rhythmbox playing mp3's. *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to create stream. totem: pcm_pulse.c:115: pulse_stop: Assertion `pcm->stream' failed. This same setup works on i386; both xine and vlc work as expected. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): totem-xine-2.20.1-1.lvn8 pulseaudio-0.9.7-0.17.svn20071017.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install F8 2. Install livna repository rpm for F8 from rpm.livna.org 3. rpm -e totem 4. yum -y install totem-xine 5. Try to play video Actual results: Totem crashes with the error message above. Expected results: Movie should play. Additional info:
I just took several steps as part of troubleshooting steps recommended from this forum: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171083 The parts involved were as follows: ------------------------------------------------------------------- edit /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-whatever it's called, and add <sound>=/dev/dsp* /dev/snd/* Then, at the bottom add <console> 0666 <sound> 0600 root ------------------------------------------------------------------- remove alsa-plugins-pulseaudio. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Problem was in my out of date /etc/asound.conf... ...should be: pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } ------------------------------------------------------------------- I made all of these changes, rebooted, and sound once again started working with totem-xine. None of this was required on my x86 systems, so I am not sure what the difference is, but there's something different.
the answer to the bug doesn't seem to work. The file /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-whatever doesn't exist.
The alsa plugin for pulseaudio is broken on the PS3 (looks like upstream bug with "24 bit only" sound cards based on output from aplay when attempting to play audio. Proper configuration of pulseaudio on the PS3 can work around this issue and sound will work as expected.