Re: Rygel Playbin ALSA card problem

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

> First, great bit of code! Even though this forum is more gnome based
> I hope you can still give me some pointers. I've cross-compiled Rygel
> to an Freescale iMx7 platform ( ARM ) and am using it as a headless
> renderer ( e.g. a DLNA speaker ) and it's working very well. I can
> play music from Kodi, JRiver etc. The problem I have is trying to
> redirect the Playbin plugin to another audio card. In Rygel.conf you
> literally enable the Playbin plugin, give it a name and that's it. Is
> there any option to redirect Playbin's output to another Audio card
> e.g hw:1,0 instead of hw:0,0 which is my default?

Not yet. Soonish. It's currently worked on but I cannot promise any
release date.

> Before using Rygel I used gmediarender-resurrect which I configured
> to use a gstreamer sink based on ALSA so I could directly bolt up to
> hw:1,0. Using this set-up  and  JRiver and other DLNA streamers my
> DAC happily rendered up to 192k ( DAC indicates sample rate ). So I'd
> like to do the same with Rygel but cannot crack the issue regarding
> the card.

Currently you would either need to change the code or use other means
to tell GStreamers's playbin which ALSA device to use (isn't there a
way to change the default device by environment variable?)

> Also, Rygel's debug seem to be non-existent when running it. I've set
> it in rygel.conf to 5 but nothing. I seem to remember somewhere
> having to set a build library #def over a certain GCC lib version, is
> this true? 

No, you need an environment variable:

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all