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| = Environment Variables =
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| In general, there is one easy way to give Phonon devs all the information they need to help fix your problem.
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| Set these environment variables:
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| <pre>
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| $ export PHONON_DEBUG=5
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| $ export PHONON_PULSEAUDIO_DEBUG=5
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| $ export PHONON_VLC_DEBUG=5
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| $ export PHONON_GST_DEBUG=5
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| $ export PHONON_XINE_DEBUG=5
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| </pre>
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| Then run your program. The terminal will fill up with gobs of debugging output.
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| == Phonon-GStreamer debugging ==
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| === Even more verbose output ===
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| Phonon-gst has some fancier debug options available. In addition to PHONON_GST_DEBUG, there is PHONON_GST_GST_DEBUG. Setting it to 8 or so will cause the gstreamer libraries to produce ''copious'' quantities of debug output. We're talking thousands of lines of what seems to be useless noise. Roughly 1% of it is useful, but the phonon-gst devs can easily decipher it and drill down to the important bits.
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| === Pulseaudio ===
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| Pulseaudio and phonon try their hardest to get along. Sometimes, it doesn't work. Luckily, there is a way to test gstreamer and pulseaudio to see who is at fault.
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| <pre>
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| $ gst-launch filesrc location=/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg ! decodebin2 ! audioresample ! audioconvert ! pulsesink
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| $ gst-launch filesrc location=/usr/share/sounds/KDE-Sys-Log-In.ogg ! decodebin2 ! audioresample ! audioconvert ! alsasink
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| </pre>
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| If they both work flawlessly, blame Phonon-GStreamer.
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| If the first works but the second doesn't, you might have an exotic sound setup that involves tweaking the alsasink parameters to reflect what pulseaudio does to alsa.
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| If the second works but the first doesn't, you can blame pulseaudio.
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| Another way to confirm this is by setting the PHONON_GST_AUDIOSINK environment variable. Setting it to e.g. "pulsesink" uses the pulseaudio sink.
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| === Recreating the phonon-gst pipeline ===
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| Phonon-GStreamer creates predicable pipelines. In general, they look like this:
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| <!-- FIXME: We need a nice diagram -->
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| filesrc -> decodebin2 -> queue -> audioresample -> audioconvert -> pulsesink
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| \
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| -> ffmpegcolorspace -> queue -> xvimagesink
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| </pre>
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| If the input stream isn't coming from a file, it is likely coming in via KIO which pipes it into an abstractmediastream. If pulseaudio isn't used, then replace pulsesink with something of alsasink, osssink, or somesuch.
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| Recreating the playback stream of some video file can be done as such:
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| $ gst-launch filesrc location=/path/to/video ! decdebin2 name=dec ! audioresample ! audioconvert ! pulsesink \
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| dec. ! ffmpegcolorspace ! xvimagesink
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| </pre>
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| DVD playback is a bit different:
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| (subpicture stream)
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| /--->---\
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| rsndvdbin -> dvdspu -> ffmpegcolorspace -> queue -> xvimagesink
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| \-> queue -> audioresample -> audioconvert -> pulsesink
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| </pre>
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| This is built with the following:
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| <pre>
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| $ gst-launch rsndvdbin ! dvdspu ! ffmpegcolorspace ! queue ! xvimagesink \
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| rsndvdbin0 ! dvdspu0.subpicture \
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| rsndvdbin0 ! queue ! audioresample ! audioconvert ! pulsesink
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| </pre>
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| = Building Phonon from source =
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| If you want to have a newer Phonon build than 4.4.3 which is currently shipped by most distributions in KDE 4.6, you can build from source (git). Phonon is now located on git.kde.org.
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| == Get Dependencies ==
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| Deb-based distros, run <pre>sudo apt-get build-dep phonon</pre>to be sure you have all dependencies installed.
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| OpenSuSE:<pre>sudo zypper si -d phonon</pre>
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| == Install git ==
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| In Kubuntu, Debian, etc.:<pre>sudo apt-get install git-core</pre>
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| In Archlinux:<pre>sudo pacman -Sy git</pre>
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| In Gentoo:<pre>sudo emerge -av dev-util/git</pre>
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| In OpenSuSE:<pre>sudo zypper install git</pre>
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| == Install ccache to speed up compilation ==
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| Install the package from your distribution and set the size of the cache to 2 GB with the command<pre>ccache -M 2G</pre>
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| This will take 2Gb of space in your local directory. Enable the use of ccache by adding it to your local .bashrc, described below.
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| == Define the PATH and local environment ==
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| Append the following to $HOME/.bashrc:<pre>
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| export PATH=$HOME/kde/bin:$PATH
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| export PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH
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| export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/kde/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH</pre>
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| Reload your edited .bashrc:<pre>
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| source $HOME/.bashrc</pre>
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| NOTE: if you are not using the bash shell, edit your proper shell config file (~/.zshrc or ~/.tcshrc or whatever it may be).
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| == Make KDE aware of Phonon’s location ==
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| <pre>
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| echo 'export KDEDIR=$HOME/kde' >> $HOME/.kde/env/myenv.sh
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| echo 'export KDEDIRS=$KDEDIR' >> $HOME/.kde/env/myenv.sh</pre>
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| Some distributions call the above folder $HOME/.kde4/ , such as OpenSuSE.
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| == Install locally==
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| Install in your $HOME dir):<pre>
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| mkdir $HOME/kde && cd kde && mkdir src && cd src
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| git clone git://anongit.kde.org/phonon
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| cd phonon && mkdir build && cd build
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| cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull $HOME/kde/src/phonon
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| sudo make install</pre>
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| To update your build, it's even easier: <pre>
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| cd ~/kde/src/phonon
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| git pull
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| cd build && sudo make install</pre>
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| == Build locally from a tarball ==
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| This is 4.4.4 for example:<pre>
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| cd ~/kde/src/
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| wget http://download.kde.org/download.php?url=stable/phonon/4.4.4/src/phonon-4.4.4.tar.bz2
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| tar xf phonon-4.4.4.tar.bz2
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| cd phonon-4.4.4 && mkdir build && cd build
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| cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull $HOME/kde/src/phonon-4.4.4
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| sudo make install</pre>
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