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

[Matt]

Thanks for the references. After installing the spice-gtk package, 
remote-viewer still had the same errors but spicy worked and played the 
sound. So, perhaps there is an issue with the remote-viewer bundle.

I also installed virt-manager and it works great after setting up my TLS 
certificates. In hindsight, this is what I should have tried from the 
beginning.

Thanks again for the help,

  -Matt

On 2/24/21 3:55 AM, Jakub Janku wrote:
> 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 The remote-viewer in brew is pretty outdated, I see.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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