Xpra: Ticket #236: XPRA_SOUND_TEST=1 fails on local system

XPRA_SOUND=1
XPRA_SOUND_DEBUG=1

When trying to use the sound test to produce a test tone I get the following output with those variables set. The output keeps repeating itself but this is a small portion.

2013-01-16 22:26:25,274 mmap is enabled using 134MBytes area in /tmp/xpra.Bgxe0J.mmap
2013-01-16 22:26:25,296 Attached to :10 (press Control-C to detach)
2013-01-16 22:26:25,366 starting aac sound sink
2013-01-16 22:26:25,372 pipeline=appsrc name=src ! mp3parse ! faad ! \
    volume name=volume ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! \
    queue name=queue max-size-time=20000000 leaky=0 ! autoaudiosink
2013-01-16 22:26:25,417 failed to start sound sink
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/client.py", line 912, in start_sound_sink
    self.sound_sink = SoundSink(codec=codec)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/sound/sink.py", line 73, in __init__
    self.setup_pipeline_and_bus(pipeline_els)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/xpra/sound/sound_pipeline.py", line 45, in setup_pipeline_and_bus
    self.pipeline = gst.parse_launch(pipeline_str)
GError: could not link mpegaudioparse0 to faad0


Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:41:40 GMT - Antoine Martin:

Here's my pipeline in test mode:

audiotestsrc volume=0.4 freq=110 wave=2 ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! lamemp3enc ! appsink name=sink

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:42:14 GMT - Antoine Martin: status, description changed; owner set


Thu, 17 Jan 2013 05:52:05 GMT - Smo:

Great the new update fixed the problem.


Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:44:20 GMT - Antoine Martin: status changed; resolution set


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 04:49:14 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/236