No sound with flash or gstreamer on opensSUSE 11.1 and gnome

plesset · 11-28-2009, 03:39 PM

All of the sudden I lost all sound when using banshee and flash. The mplayer-plugin and firefox works however.

Lately I have been having problems like this periodically. Can anyone recommend a stable repository setup to me?

Code:

andri@virgil:~$ zypper ve
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Dependencies of all installed packages are satisfied.

I have tried to have all the gstreamer package come from packman

Code:

 rpm --query --all --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}-%{ARCH} -> %{VENDOR}\n' gstreamer-0_10*
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.17-999.pm.1001.4-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg-0.10.9-999.pm.1000.1-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra-0.10.17-999.pm.1001.4-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-lang-0.10.17-999.pm.1001.4-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux-0.10.4-42.pm.42.2-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-farsight-0.12.11-0.pm.2.7-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-lang-0.10.13-999.pm.1001.3-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.13-999.pm.1001.3-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.10-42.pm.42.2-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-utils-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-lang-0.10.17-999.pm.999.3-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.25-999.pm.1000.3-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-lang-0.10.25-999.pm.1000.3-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-lang-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.17-999.pm.999.3-i586 -> http://packman.links2linux.de

and ...

Code:

 rpm --query --all 'libav*' 'libpostproc*' 'libswscale*' '*xine*' '*gst*' MPlayer '*vlc*' | grep -v avahi | sort
banshee-1-backend-engine-gstreamer-1.4.3-1.2.1
gstreamer-0_10-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5
gstreamer-0_10-ffmpeg-0.10.9-999.pm.1000.1
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mp3-0.10.10-42.pm.42.2
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegdemux-0.10.23-42.pm.42.2
gstreamer-0_10-fluendo-mpegmux-0.10.4-42.pm.42.2
gstreamer-0_10-lang-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-0.10.17-999.pm.999.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-bad-lang-0.10.17-999.pm.999.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-0.10.25-999.pm.1000.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-base-lang-0.10.25-999.pm.1000.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-farsight-0.12.11-0.pm.2.7
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-0.10.17-999.pm.1001.4
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-extra-0.10.17-999.pm.1001.4
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-good-lang-0.10.17-999.pm.1001.4
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-0.10.13-999.pm.1001.3
gstreamer-0_10-plugins-ugly-lang-0.10.13-999.pm.1001.3
gstreamer-0_10-utils-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5
gstreamer-utils-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5
libavc1394-0-0.5.3-129.3
libavcodec52-0.5.20511svn-0.pm.1.2
libavdevice52-0.5.20511svn-0.pm.1.2
libavformat52-0.5.20511svn-0.pm.1.2
libavogadro0-0.9.6-20.6
libavutil49-0.5-1.pm.7.2
libavutil50-0.5.20592svn-0.pm.1.2
libgstapp-0_10-0-0.10.25-999.pm.1000.3
libgstbasevideo-0_10-0-0.10.17-999.pm.999.3
libgstinterfaces-0_10-0-0.10.25-999.pm.1000.3
libgstphotography-0_10-0-0.10.17-999.pm.999.3
libgstreamer-0_10-0-0.10.25-999.pm.999.5
libgstsignalprocessor0-0.10.14-999.pm.1000.10
libgstsignalprocessor-0_10-0-0.10.17-999.pm.999.3
libpostproc51-0.5.20511svn-0.pm.1.2
libswscale0-0.5.20511svn-0.pm.1.2
libxine1-1.1.16.3-3.pm.26.1
libxine1-aa-1.1.16.3-3.pm.26.1
libxine1-codecs-1.1.16.3-3.pm.26.1
MPlayer-1.0rc2_r29796-2.pm.2.4
phonon-backend-xine-4.1.3-4.2.9
python-gstreamer-0_10-0.10.17-999.pm.1003.2
xinetd-2.3.14-129.28

Repositories ::

Code:

andri@virgil:~$ zypper lr
#  | Alias                 | Name                  | Enabled | Refresh
---+-----------------------+-----------------------+---------+--------
1  | Application:Geo       | Application:Geo       | Yes     | Yes    
2  | Banshee               | Banshee               | Yes     | Yes    
3  | Devel                 | Devel                 | Yes     | Yes    
4  | Education             | Education             | Yes     | Yes    
5  | Gnome_Contrib         | Gnome Contrib         | No      | Yes    
6  | Gnome_Stable          | Gnome Stable          | Yes     | Yes    
7  | Gnome_community       | Gnome community       | Yes     | Yes    
8  | Java                  | Java                  | No      | Yes    
9  | Mozilla               | Mozilla               | Yes     | Yes    
10 | NVIDIA Repository     | NVIDIA Repository     | Yes     | Yes    
11 | OpenOffice            | OpenOffice            | Yes     | Yes    
12 | Perl                  | Perl                  | Yes     | Yes    
13 | Science               | Science               | Yes     | Yes    
14 | VLC                   | VLC                   | No      | Yes    
15 | Wine                  | Wine                  | Yes     | Yes    
16 | google                | google                | Yes     | Yes    
17 | openSUSE-11.1-Updates | openSUSE-11.1-Updates | Yes     | Yes    
18 | openSUSE111           | openSUSE111           | Yes     | Yes    
19 | openSUSE111_NonOSS    | openSUSE111_NonOSS    | Yes     | Yes    
20 | packman               | packman               | Yes     | Yes

I have gone through this excellent link http://forums.opensuse.org/applicati...ten-steps.html and came out clean.

Any thoughts or suggestions will be most appreciated.

aus9 · 11-28-2009, 07:00 PM

hi...suggestions only

independently install alsa-utils unless you already have it and as local user run alsamixer.

provide a snapshot of all playback settings please.

7 day paste at
http://imagebin.org/index.php?page=add
or your fav site.

2) independent test....install mozilla firefox and download the tar adobe flashplayer and unpack it and put the libflash* into ffox plugins folder.

3) look at ALSA and various checks if you have time
http://sidux.com/index.php?module=Wi...ag=SoundMaster

plesset · 11-29-2009, 03:57 AM

Hi - and thanks for your suggestions.

I had alsa-utils installed according to zypper. After running the alsamixer I posted the snapshots on the website you suggested - just search for "plesset". Hopefully I got all the available settings. I do notice that there is no PCM. But maybe that is alright?

Firefox was already installed, and also flash-player which is the latest one from Abobe's website. Just in case I downloaded the tarball and placed the .so under /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (which I had to create). After restarting ff, it made no change.

I'm going through the alsa check right now, but not finding anything in particular. Perhaps I can post the results here?

Thanks
- Andri

plesset · 11-29-2009, 09:02 AM

Ok, it seems that solution was a little bit less than dignifying. Although running alsamixer from the terminal showed no PCM bar I could access it from Yast2/Sound. For some reason it was set to zero. After I increased it I got the sound back. I guess it is borderline embarrassing.

But does that mean I'm not using alsa after all?

- Andri

aus9 · 11-29-2009, 05:30 PM

nah its just a mixer setting....no harm done