[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 163780] New: alsasink doesn't work

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163780
 GStreamer | gst-plugins | Ver: 0.8.7

           Summary: alsasink doesn't work
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: 0.8.7
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gst-plugins
        AssignedTo: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
        ReportedBy: pinihadad at optonline.net
         QAContact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.sourceforge.net
                CC: all-bugs at bugzilla.gnome.org


Sorry the summary isn't more specific. 
I'm running Gentoo with Linux 2.6.9-mm1. Gstreamer 0.8.8, gst-plugins 0.8.7, and
gst-plugins-* 0.8.7 all installed from portage. In case you're not familiar with
the way portage supplies gst-plugins, there are seperate packages for each of
the plugins in gst-plugins. I've got alsa working fine for most things and oss
emulation set up (although I never used it till now). My hardware doesn't
support hardware mixing and I don't have dmix(er?) set up. I'm using amarok
1.2_beta3 with the gstreamer engine. 
I wanted to use the alsa sink. But when I'd try to play anything it wouldn't
play and would report: [GStreamer Error] ALSA device "default" is already in use
by another program. No other program was actually using it. If I try to play
something in xmms (which is configured to use the alsa output plugin) while
amarok is open, it can't play. If I close amarok it is then able to play right
away. Amarok is able to play things fine if I configure it to use the oss sink. 
I did some searching and tried a couple of things that might be useful:
$ gst-launch-0.8 sinesrc ! alsasink
RUNNING pipeline ...
ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to play.
Doesn't make any noise.

$ gst-launch-0.8 sinesrc ! osssink
RUNNING pipeline ...
Caught interrupt.
Execution ended after 21 iterations (sum 255966000 ns, average 12188857 ns,
min112000 ns, max 92418000 ns).
This one makes a really annoying tone until I kill it.

If you need anything else or if this is filed in the wrong place please let me
know. Thanks for your time.

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