Bug#991597: pulseaudio: Please enable GStreamer support

[Igor Kovalenko]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:36:45 +0100 Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> wrote:
> Le 14/02/22 à 13:01, Tomas Janousek a écrit :
> > -
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> Hello,
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 09:55:44AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> >
> >     Le 3/08/21 à 18:46, Felipe Sateler a écrit :
> >     >Does that mean that enabling it, would only add some dependencies
> >     >but not actually do anything?
> >
> >     Yes, a (soft) dependency should probably be added against
> >     gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad, but as I said, the needed version (>=
> >     1.19) is not yet in debian
> >
> > There's gstreamer 1.20 in unstable and testing now, so there's a
> > chance it would finally do something useful if enabled. :-)
> >
> Yes it's planned, I've a build on my laptop and I did some testing with
> my Sony (WF1000xm4, WH1000xm4,...) devices and when using LDAC, it's not
> working (no sound or device crashing).
>
> So I personally don't want to upload the change before this is fixed.

I think we tracked the issue to the root cause now, it is a problem with the
'rtldacpay' element of gstreamer. Experimental change to pulseaudio was used
to confirm the issue and there will be a fix to gstreamer plugin code following
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues/1124#note_1265887