[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 500610] a trace on pidgin told me to report a bug here, and here it is.

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  GStreamer | don't know | Ver: 0.10.x

Tim-Philipp Müller changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |t.i.m at zen.co.uk
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |NOTABUG
   Target Milestone|HEAD                        |NONE




------- Comment #1 from Tim-Philipp Müller  2007-12-06 09:31 UTC -------
The log shows two error messages generated by GStreamer.  The first one is the
'proper' one.  The second one is the generic fallback one that the user should
never really get to see, and the way it's meant is that you should only really
file a bug if your application shows you this in an error dialog :)

Also, usually the application resets the pipeline to NULL state when it
encounters  the first error message, which would flush/discard all following
error messages (since the first is the 'most precise' one).  I don't know if
pidgin fails to do this properly, or if it lists the second error message on
purpose here, but it does not really look like a bug in GStreamer.

As for the problem itself: the 'Resource busy or not available' error might be
due to pidgin trying to open an audio device directly instead of going via
pulseaudio (which has this device already open for its own use).  You might be
able to fix this by playing with the pidgin configuration settings or the GNOME
settings via  System => Preferences => Sound.

If this doesn't help, you might be able to find more support in the pidgin or
ubuntu fora.


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