#729067 [phonon] App volume controls have no function

Package:
phonon
Source:
phonon
Submitter:
Schrober
Date:
2013-11-11 15:36:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#729067#5
Date:
2013-11-08 14:11:38 UTC
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The volume control in amarok seems to have no use at all. I've tested the VLC
and Gstreamer backend and it is not changing my volume at all. I would have
expect that the pulseaudio volume is changed for amarok but nothing happens at
all. Also switching the song doesn't seem to do anything (this was recommended
in some forums).

This also happens with the KDE dragonplayer. BUT the volume controls in VLC
(the video player) work as expected and the pulseaudio app volume controls are
moving when I modify the volume in the video player.

Any hints how this can be debugged further?
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  500 unstable        http.debian.net
    1 unstable        www.deb-multimedia.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends                       (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-=================
libphonon4             (>= 4:4.7.0.0-2) | 4:4.7.0.0-2
debconf                       (>= 0.5)  | 1.5.52
 OR debconf-2.0                         |
phonon-backend-vlc                      | 0.7.0-1
 OR phonon-backend                      |


Package's Recommends field is empty.

Suggests                      (Version) | Installed
=======================================-+-===========
phonon-backend-gstreamer                | 4:4.7.0.0-1
phonon-backend-mplayer                  |
phonon-backend-vlc                      | 0.7.0-1
#729067#10
Date:
2013-11-11 15:06:23 UTC
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I've verified that it works when downgrading libphonon4 and phonon to
4:4.6.0.0-3 + phonon-backend-gstreamer to 4:4.6.3-1. The phonon-backend-vlc
was removed for this test because the vlc dependencies were a nightmare to
downgrade.

Then I've upgraded libphonon4 again to 4:4.7.0.0-2 and it stopped working. I
can repeat these step again and again and come always to the same result. I
cannot upgrade phonon or phonon-backend-gstreamer without libphonon4. Thus it
is not possible for me whether this also happens with only these components
upgraded.
#729067#15
Date:
2013-11-11 15:11:19 UTC
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https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/phonon/phonon/repository/revisions/f278a93493ac04ce04d48e8e5b5158caa0621ce3

Or someone could cherry-pick that into the Debian packaging, a release
of .1 will not happen until the end of the month.

HS
#729067#20
Date:
2013-11-11 15:32:57 UTC
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tags 729067 + patch
thanks

I have attached a patch which should fix this problem. At least it fixes my
pulseaudio volume control problem for me.