Hi Felipe &  Nie, Any ideas on how to solve this problem? Regards vinod <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:49 PM, vinod james <<a href="mailto:vinod.james@gmail.com">vinod.james@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi, This is the log it generates( I have attached as .txt with better formatting) 0:00:00.036590000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsasink.c:271:gst_alsasink_init:<GstAlsaSink@0x85c2170> initializing alsasink 0:00:00.036900000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsasink.c:301:gst_alsasink_getcaps:<alsasink0> device not open, using template caps Setting pipeline to PAUSED ... 0:00:00.037299000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG            audiosink gstaudiosink.c:565:gst_audio_sink_create_ringbuffer:<alsasink0> creating ringbuffer 0:00:00.037384000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG            audiosink gstaudiosink.c:567:gst_audio_sink_create_ringbuffer:<alsasink0> created ringbuffer @0x85c4908 0:00:00.051408000 13368  0x8578098 LOG                   alsa gstalsasink.c:676:gst_alsasink_open:<alsasink0> Opened device default 0:00:00.051607000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:3456:gst_base_sink_change_state:<alsasink0> READY to PAUSED 0:00:00.051639000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:3474:gst_base_sink_change_state:<alsasink0> doing async state change 0:00:00.051683000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:2918:gst_base_sink_pad_activate:<alsasink0> Trying pull mode first 0:00:00.051710000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:2927:gst_base_sink_pad_activate:<alsasink0> Falling back to push mode 0:00:00.051735000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:2929:gst_base_sink_pad_activate:<alsasink0> Success activating push mode 0:00:00.052103000 13368  0x8578098 WARN                  alsa gstalsa.c:124:gst_alsa_detect_formats:<alsasink0> skipping non-int format 0:00:00.052144000 13368  0x8578098 LOG                   alsa gstalsa.c:30:gst_alsa_detect_rates:<alsasink0> probing sample rates ... 0:00:00.052171000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsa.c:49:gst_alsa_detect_rates:<alsasink0> Min. rate = 4000 (4000) 0:00:00.052194000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsa.c:50:gst_alsa_detect_rates:<alsasink0> Max. rate = 2147483647 (-1) 0:00:00.052219000 13368  0x8578098 LOG                   alsa gstalsa.c:265:gst_alsa_detect_channels:<alsasink0> probing channels ... 0:00:00.052240000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsa.c:309:gst_alsa_detect_channels:<alsasink0> Min. channels = 1 (1) 0:00:00.052262000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsa.c:310:gst_alsa_detect_channels:<alsasink0> Max. channels = 8 (10000) 0:00:00.052544000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsa.c:388:gst_alsa_open_iec958_pcm:<alsasink0> Generated device string "iec958:{AES0 0x02 AES1 0x82 AES2 0x00 AES3 0x02}" At this point I had to press Ctrl-d as it was in infinite loop Caught interrupt -- 0:00:05.107535000 13368  0x8578098 WARN alsa pcm_hw.c:1155:snd_pcm_hw_open: alsalib error: open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Interrupted system call 0:00:05.107593000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG                 alsa gstalsa.c:394:gst_alsa_open_iec958_pcm:<alsasink0> failed opening IEC958 device: Interrupted system call 0:00:05.107623000 13368  0x8578098 INFO                  alsa gstalsasink.c:321:gst_alsasink_getcaps:<alsasink0> returning caps audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)32, depth=(int)32, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)[1, 2 ]; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false}, width=(int)32, depth=(int)32, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ],channels=(int)3, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)32, depth=(int)32, rate=(int)[4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)4,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false },width=(int)32, depth=(int)32, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)6, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >;audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)32, depth=(int)32, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)8,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_RIGHT >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false },width=(int)24, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)[ 1, 2 ]; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false}, width=(int)24, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)3, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234,signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)24, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)4,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT >;audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)24, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)6,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >;audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)24, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)8,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_RIGHT >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false },width=(int)32, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)[ 1, 2 ]; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false}, width=(int)32, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)3, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234,signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)32, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)4,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT >;audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)32, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)6,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >;audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)32, depth=(int)24, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)8,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_RIGHT >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false },width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)[ 1, 2 ]; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false}, width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)3, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >; audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234,signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)4,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT >;audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)6,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >;audio/x-raw-int, endianness=(int)1234, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)16, depth=(int)16, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)8,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_RIGHT >; audio/x-raw-int, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)8, depth=(int)8,rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)[ 1, 2 ]; audio/x-raw-int, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)8, depth=(int)8, rate=(int)[ 4000,2147483647 ], channels=(int)3, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >; audio/x-raw-int, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)8, depth=(int)8, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ],channels=(int)4, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)< GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT >; audio/x-raw-int, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)8, depth=(int)8,rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)6, channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE >;audio/x-raw-int, signed=(boolean){ true, false }, width=(int)8, depth=(int)8, rate=(int)[ 4000, 2147483647 ], channels=(int)8,channel-positions=(GstAudioChannelPosition)<GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_RIGHT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_REAR_RIGHT,GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_FRONT_CENTER, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_LFE, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_LEFT, GST_AUDIO_CHANNEL_POSITION_SIDE_RIGHT > Pipeline is PREROLLING ... handling interrupt. Interrupt: Stopping pipeline ... ERROR: pipeline doesn't want to preroll. Setting pipeline to NULL ... 0:00:05.194465000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:2885:gst_base_sink_set_flushing:<alsasink0> flushing out data thread, need preroll to TRUE 0:00:05.194496000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:1129:gst_base_sink_preroll_queue_flush:<alsasink0> flushing queue 0x85c2170 0:00:05.194529000 13368  0x8578098 DEBUG             basesink gstbasesink.c:3608:gst_base_sink_change_state:<alsasink0> PAUSED to READY, posting async-done FREEING pipeline ...<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Nie Jun <<a href="mailto:niej0001@gmail.com" target="_blank">niej0001@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> It is strange, please try gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink --gst-debug=alsa:5,basesink:4,baseaudiosink:4,audiosink:4 It is supposed to print a lot of log messages. If there is too much log, you can change all log level to 3 or remove some log. <div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/5 vinod james <<a href="mailto:vinod.james@gmail.com" target="_blank">vinod.james@gmail.com</a>><div><div></div><div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi Felipe, It didn't help. No extra debug information came out It displays and goes into infinite loop "Setting pipeline to Paused..." Regards vinod <div><div></div><div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Felipe Contreras <<a href="mailto:felipe.contreras@gmail.com" target="_blank">felipe.contreras@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div>On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 8:30 AM, vinod james <<a href="mailto:vinod.james@gmail.com" target="_blank">vinod.james@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > > Hi, > I have done a source installation of gstreamer and gstreamer-base plugins > version 0.10.21 > I am trying few things mentioned in the faq document > If I say > $aplay -v test.wav, > I am able to play the wav file through alsaplay, which shows that alsa > driver is installed in my PC > > If I do > $gst-inspect alsasink > shows that alsasink is installed. > > And when i do > $gst-launch filesrc location=test.ogg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! > audioresample ! filesink location=test.raw > it writes the decoded raw samples into the file and I am  able to play > test.raw in application like cooledit > > But if I do > $gst-launch filesrc location=test.ogg ! decodebin ! audioconvert ! > audioresample ! alsasink > it goes into infinite loop. > The alsasink plugin is not able to detect the alsadriver I guess. > How do I debug this problem? > Pls help me </div></div>Try with: gst-launch-0.10 audiotestsrc ! alsasink And for debugging: export GST_DEBUG=alsa:5 -- Felipe Contreras ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. 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