Re: Renderer issue with Rygel 0.20.1

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Do, 2013-11-07 at 10:38 +0200, Jussi Kukkonen wrote:
> On 6 November 2013 19:07, Michael Lathion <m lathion gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I have an issue with Rygel 0.20.1, I can't play any file using Rygel as
> > renderer.
> >
> > Before I was using Rygel 0.14.2 from Debian Wheezy and everything worked
> > fine.
> >
> > I have now upgraded Rygel (+dependencies) to 0.20.1 from Debian Jessie
> > (testing) repository but when I try to launch a stream from any controller I
> > get this error from Rygel :
>
> Hi Michael,
>
> I'm running Unstable myself and 0.20.1 is working.
>
> > ** (rygel:20202): WARNING **: rygel-playbin-player.vala:507: Error from
> > GStreamer element playbin0: The autoaudiosink element is not working.
> > (gstplaysink.c(2680): gen_audio_chain ():
> > /GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstPlaySink:playsink)
> >
> > ** (rygel:20202): WARNING **: rygel-playbin-player.vala:511: Going to
> > STOPPED state
> >
> > If I go back to 0.14.2 it works ok again.
>
> The obvious change between 0.14 and 0.20 is going from gstreamer
> version ancient to 1.0. The errors sound like a gstreamer problem as
> well but I'm just not very good with those... You could try
>   GST_DEBUG='*:2' gst-launch-1.0 playbin uri=http:///url/to/stream
> to confirm this -- it's fairly close to what Rygel playbin player
> tries to do. You may need to install gstreamer1.0-tools first.

The issue here is that you need to install a specific gstreamer 1.0
audio sink (gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio or gstreamer1.0-alsa) . This has
happened with ubuntu before as well (There's a closed GNOME bug because
we issues a weird error but I can't find it currently)