Alsa audio backend in Qt 5.2.0?

[reddish]

Hi all,

I have a small Qt app that uses QAudioOutput to emit sound. It compiles & runs fine in Qt 4.8.5.

However, in Qt 5.2.0 beta1 (built from source), my application compiles, but does not work. I get the following message while the constructor of the QAudioOutput instance is constructed:

"Unable to create a connection to the pulseaudio context"

Also, the constructor does not return.

I do not have pulseaudio running. ALSA is working fine, and this is what my program uses when compiling under 4.8.5.

Inspecting the Qt 5.2.0 "plugins/audio" directory, there is only "libqtmedia_pulse.so" there, the name of which suggests that it depends on pulseaudio.

My questions:

• Is there still a backend for output to ALSA (without pulseaudio) in Qt 5.2.0 ?
• If yes, how do I make sure it is built? I do not see any configure options for that.
• It appears to be a bug that the constructor of QAudioOutput hangs my app. Where can I report that?

Kind regards,

Sidney

[reddish]

Just to add to this: the same problem manifests itself when using Qt 5.0.2 and 5.1.1. So it seems that something changed between 4.8 and 5.0 that causes the hard pulseaudio dependency.