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Empathy in Karmic, audio support is horrible

Bug #419169 reported by Guy Van Sanden
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empathy (Ubuntu)
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gst-plugins-good0.10 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: empathy

I'm using empathy/telepathy in Ubunt Karmic (fully updated). When I try audio over Jabber or Gtalk, audio is incomprehensible or even completely missing.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 26 13:10:45 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: empathy 2.27.5-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_DK.UTF-8
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
SourcePackage: empathy
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic i686

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Guy Van Sanden (gvs) wrote :
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Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy) wrote :

Are you using Pulseaudio?

Could you please paste the output of "gconftool-2 --get /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc" ?

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Guy Van Sanden (gvs) wrote :

It says: alsasrc

The sound is a lot better since this morning's pulseaudio upgrade

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Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy) wrote :

Could you start gstreamer-properties (package gnome-media), change your default audio input and output to Pulseaudio and see if that help?

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Guy Van Sanden (gvs) wrote :

That seems to be better...

Why isn't pulseaudio the default? I thought it would be on karmic.

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Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy) wrote :

Empathy uses the source defined in the "/system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosrc" gconf key which is the right thing to do.

Ubuntu could maybe patch gstreamer0.10-plugins-good to change its default to "pulseaudiosrc" instead of "alsasrc". Let's open a gst issue about that.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package gst-plugins-good0.10 - 0.10.16-1ubuntu1

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gst-plugins-good0.10 (0.10.16-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Sync on Debian
  * debian/gstreamer-plugins-good.install,
    debian/patches/04_move_farsight_plugins_to_good.patch,
    debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch:
    - install the farsight plugins with good until upstream does the change
  * debian/gstreamer0.10-plugins-good.gconf-defaults:
    - set the audiosrc default to pulsesrc (lp: #419169)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:53:06 +0200

Changed in gst-plugins-good0.10 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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Guillaume Desmottes (cassidy) wrote :

Closing the Emapthy bug as well as sound works fine with recent PA.

Changed in empathy (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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