Bug#409492: /usr/bin/gstreamer-properties: Only sets default audio sink

[Mike Hommey]

Package: gnome-media
Version: 2.16.1-1
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/gstreamer-properties

When setting the default audio sink, gstreamer-properties only sets the
/system/gstreamer/0.10/default/audiosink key.

Unfortunately, there also are /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/chataudiosink
and /system/gstreamer/0.10/default/musicaudiosink keys. I don't know if
software use the chataudiosink, but rhythmbox does use the
musicaudiosink (and I'm going to file a bug against totem-gstreamer,
because it should use this too, given the description of the key).

While testing pulseaudio, and its gstreamer sink, I was surprised that
I would be able to play sound through the pulsesink with gst-launch,
with gstreamer-properties test and with totem, and not rhythmbox.
I think users would have the same expectations as I did: changing the
default sink would change the sink for all applications using gstreamer...

Changing the musicaudiosink key made rhythmbox use pulsesink as
expected.

gstreamer-properties should be improved to handle these additional keys.

Mike

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gnome-media depends on:
ii  gnome-media-common         2.16.1-1      GNOME media utilities - common fil
ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa [gstrea 0.10.11-3     GStreamer plugin for ALSA
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-base 0.10.11-3     GStreamer plugins from the "base" 
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good 0.10.5-3      GStreamer plugins from the "good" 
ii  libart-2.0-2               2.3.17-1      Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.12.4-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0              0.2.6-6       Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0               2.16.0-1      Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0             2.16.0-1      The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                      2.3.6.ds1-10  GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.2.6-1       The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libesd0                    0.2.36-3      Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libfontconfig1             2.4.2-1       generic font configuration library
ii  libgail-common             1.9.3-1       GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                  1.8.11-4      GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                2.16.0-3      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0                1:2.6.0-4     library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.12.9-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          0.6.0-3       GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome-media0            2.16.1-1      runtime libraries for the GNOME me
ii  libgnome2-0                2.16.0-2      The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0          2.14.0-2      A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0               2.16.1-1      The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0             1:2.16.3-4    GNOME virtual file-system (runtime
ii  libgstreamer-plugins-base0 0.10.11-3     GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0         0.10.11-1     Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.10.7-1      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                    1:1.0.1-2     X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-burn3          2.14.3-8      Nautilus Burn Library - runtime ve
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.4-1    libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.14.8-5      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                   1.10-3        lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                     1:1.0.1-3     X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.0.3-5     X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1                1.1.7-4       X cursor management library
ii  libxext6                   1:1.0.1-2     X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3                 1:4.0.1-5     X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                     1:1.0.1-4     X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1               1:1.0.1-4.1   X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                    2.6.27.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2                 2:1.1.0.2-5   X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                1:0.9.1-3     X Rendering Extension client libra

gnome-media recommends no packages.

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