On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 10:37:23PM -0000, Rüdiger Kupper wrote:
> Hm, to my knowledge Lubuntu does not come with pulseaudio nor gstreamer. The
> standard install relies on audio applications that use plain ALSA. Try
> installing from a Lubuntu live CD.
> It's certainly hard to choose which (meta-)package should pull in
> gstreamer1.0-alsa. But some package should include it, otherwise Lubuntu
> users will end up without it and have the problems described above. It's the
> link between ALSA and gstreamer, so it could come with one of the packages
> that deliver ALSA or gstreamer. There's probably no perfect answer here. It
> could just be included in the standard Lubuntu install, but the Lubuntu
> people opt for simplicity and use direct ALSA.
>
> However, a typical scenario is as follows:
> You install Lubuntu from a Live CD. You find a selection of slim audio
> software like audacious. However, you miss your rhythmbox/banshee/whatever.
> You install rhythmbox/banshee/whatever. It does not work, because there is no
> gstreamer. You google a bit and learn that the gstreamer plugins come with
> ubuntu-restricted-extras. You install it, but your rhythmbox/banshee/whatever
> still does not work, because there is no ALSA sink. You google a bit more but
> find no answer. You end up writing a bug report on launchpad ;-).
>
> Anyway, it might even have helped if gstreamer printed a proper error
> message (like "no sink found") instead of trying to use the jack sink,
> which is probably the least likely to exist. I don't know where's the
> best place of doing it, but somehow it should be guaranteed that there
> is at least one sink present when gstreamer is installed.
There is at least one sink present (the jack one). Banshee depends on
gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio | gstreamer1.0-audiosink, and the latter package is a
virtual package that can be satisfied by any audio sink. In addition, it
recommends gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, so it should be installed by default (but
will work even if you tell apt not to install gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio, but in
that case you're responsible for choosing another audiosink).
The issue here is that gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio is also useless because you don't
use pulseaudio.
Since this issue is more specific to Lubuntu installations, I'd be tempted to
slap gstreamer1.0-alsa onto lubuntu-desktop, but it looks like none of the
default media players even use gstreamer. I'll stick lubuntu-meta onto this bug
anyway, hopefully someone more acquianted with lubuntu would be able to come up
with a better solution.
affects ubuntu/lubuntu-meta
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Kind regards,
Loong Jin
** Also affects: lubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178272
Title:
Without pulseaudio, banshee and rhythmbox report "jack server is not
running or cannot be started" and do not play
Status in “banshee” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “gstreamer0.10” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in “lubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in “rhythmbox” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
Lubuntu Raring (13.04).
The Lubuntu standard installation comes without jack, and without pulse, just
plain alsa. Gstreamer applications (rhythmbox, banshee) used to work fine after
installing "ubuntu-restricted-extras", which pulls in the usual gstreamer
plugins.
On my system, gstreamer applications stopped working. They report:
> Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory
> Cannot connect to server request channel
> jack server is not running or cannot be started
Since there is no jack on this system, never was, and is not intended to be
there, I cannot understand this message. The applications do not produce sound.
This looks like gstreamer tries to start up jackd, regardless whether
it is installed or not.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.36-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu May 9 15:38:20 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-12 (85 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gstreamer0.10
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-25 (13 days ago)
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