[Bug 44943] Dapper- alsasink does not work

[Daniel Hackney]

Public bug reported:

Hello all,

I was hounded by a perplexing bug in any Gstreamer app that prevented
any audio playback unless I was using something other than alsasink.

see these examples:
$ gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
ERROR: from element /pipeline0/alsasink0: Could not get/set settings from/on resource.
Additional debug info:
gstalsasink.c(666): set_hwparams (): /pipeline0/alsasink0:
Unable to set buffer time 200000 for playback: Invalid argument
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll.
Setting pipeline to NULL ...
FREEING pipeline ...


whereas osssink gives me:

$ gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! osssink
Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
Pipeline is PREROLLING ...
Pipeline is PREROLLED ...
Setting pipeline to PLAYING ...
New clock: audioclock0

until I kill it with C-c

Killing esd does not help either.

** Affects: gnome-media (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Dapper- alsasink does not work
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44943