GStreamer playbin2 and "Silent" mode on the N900

Hello!

When the N900 is in "silent" mode, music played through playbin2
using GStreamer is also muted, so one has to switch to the
"General" profile in order to listen to music. The built-in media
player is not affected by this, so is there a way to set my playbin2
to not be muted when the phone has the "silent" profile activated?

In my case, it's a third-party media player, so the user pretty likely
wants to listen to music when using it, independent of the selected
profile (Silent, General).

Thanks,
Thomas

Hi,

same with FM radio, Zoutube, MediaBox and any other app playing sound
through GStreamer.

Am I supposed to close bug https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7121
as WONTFIX because Nokia doesn't want to tell us how it is done?

I've compared the mixer settings between normal and silent mode and
there is no difference visible.


>From a Q&A sheet:

> 25. Application feature interaction with profiles (general and silent)
> Failed
> #006 Audio from FM radio disappears after changing from General to Silent profile.

Nokia is expecting our apps to comply with a policy that is completely
undocumented?


Martin


2009/11/24, Thomas Perl <th.perl@gmail.com>:
> Hello!
>
> When the N900 is in "silent" mode, music played through playbin2
> using GStreamer is also muted, so one has to switch to the
> "General" profile in order to listen to music. The built-in media
> player is not affected by this, so is there a way to set my playbin2
> to not be muted when the phone has the "silent" profile activated?
>
> In my case, it's a third-party media player, so the user pretty likely
> wants to listen to music when using it, independent of the selected
> profile (Silent, General).
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>