[Spice-devel] No Sound with RemoteViewer on OSX Client

[Jakub Janku]

Forgot to include the mailing list, so I'm replying again, sorry.
Jakub

On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:49 PM Jakub Janku <jjanku at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 11:47 PM Matthew Sienko <matt_sienko at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I installed gst-plugins-good using brew and I still can't get the sound to work. I attached the output of remote viewer with the --spice-debug flag. I connected to a running windows guest, tried to play a sound, then disconnected.
>
> Thanks for the log. I thought there might be a problem with the plugin
> installation, but appsrc should be one of the base plugins and that's
> already in the bundle.
>
> The remote-viewer in brew is pretty outdated, I see. So I'd suggest
> you install the spice-gtk package instead, [0], it should contain all
> the necessary gstreamer dependencies. The package should include a
> tool called spicy which you can use instead of remote viewer, although
> it is meant primarily for testing.
>
> There's also a formula for a newer version of virt-viewer, [1]. Not
> sure why it's not in brew though.
>
> [0] https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/spice-gtk
> [1] https://github.com/jeffreywildman/homebrew-virt-manager
>
> Cheers,
> Jakub
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  -Matt
> >
> > On Sunday, February 21, 2021, 8:52:10 AM PST, Jakub Janku <jjanku at redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 9:37 AM Matthew Sienko <matt_sienko at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > When connecting to a VM running on a Linux server from a client on OSX, the connection works but without sound. I am using the RemoteViewer bundle version 0.5.7 on OS X 11.2.1. When the guest OS sends audio, I get the following errors in verbose mode:
> > >
> > >
> > > (RemoteViewer-bin:6323): GStreamer-CRITICAL **: gst_element_query: assertion `GST_IS_ELEMENT (element)' failed
> > >
> > > ** (RemoteViewer-bin:6323): CRITICAL **: gst_app_src_push_buffer_full: assertion `GST_IS_APP_SRC (appsrc)' failed
> > >
> > > ** (RemoteViewer-bin:6323): CRITICAL **: gst_app_src_push_buffer_full: assertion `GST_IS_APP_SRC (appsrc)' failed
> >
> >
> > This looks very similar to the following issue:
> > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/spice-gtk/-/merge_requests/7
> > So I'd guess that you don't have the gst-plugins-good package installed.
> >
> > Apart from these errors, I think that you should also see a warning
> > starting with "Failed to create a pipeline...", correct?
> >
> > If installing the mentioned package doesn't help, please run remote
> > viewer with the --spice-debug option and send the log here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jakub
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anybody have any tips as to what could be going wrong and how to fix it?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >  -Matt
> >
> > >
> > >
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