[Lucid] Phonon pulseaudio support is broken
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qt4-x11 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: phonon
Using Kubuntu Lucid beta 1
Under Karmic, if I enable pulseaudio, I get an option for 'Pulseaudio' in the Phonon configuration in system settings. This configures the xine backend to use pulseaudio natively.
Under Lucid, the only option I get is 'Playback through the pulseaudio sound server', which actually uses the ALSA-pulse plugin. This is not pretty and it's a regression from Karmic. Note that this also happens if I upgrade Karmic to KDE 4.4.2 using the ppa).
Additionally, a great deal of work has been done recently, mainly by Colin Guthrie at Mandriva, to integrate pulseaudio properly into KDE. Both Mandriva and Fedora are including this work in their forthcoming releases. I have been testing it and it has worked flawlessly. It would be really great to see this included in Kubuntu.
Related branches
Changed in phonon (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → Confirmed |
affects: | phonon (Ubuntu) → qt4-x11 (Ubuntu) |
Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Fix Committed |
This change in behavior is actually caused by the Phonon patches. Pulse support is built in to each backend itself, so you can use any backend with PA seamlessly. The only patches that we don't have are the KMix ones, because they are quite invasive and introduce a lot of new strings that we don't have the manpower to translate at this time.