Maverick: Kino plays too fast, sound is not passed through pulseaudio

When playing back video, and pulse audio active, no audio and video playback is too fast.
And lots of output:

Could not open ALSA device "/dev/dsp": No such file or directory
ALSA lib pcm.c:2211:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM /dev/dsp

The padsp workaround improves video playback, but the audio sounds choppy.

The workaround that works well for me (and others) is to use pasuspender
to suspect pulse audio and allow direct audio hardware access.

Further discussion:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1334403

The workaround I suggest for Jaunty, Karmic, Lucid and Maverick is to adjust the Kino menu item to prefix kino with pasuspender in order to bypass pulse audio.

Same issue here, with the only difference that kino so far worked fine in Jaunty, Karmic and Lucid. After the update to Maverick I have exactly the above symptoms, so i would see this as a regression.

May I suggest to have a look at the workaround suggested in : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=526655#10

Hope this helps.

i've tried the following combinations (command, audio device) with no success:

kino, default
kino, /dev/dsp
padsp kino, default
padsp kino, /dev/dsp
pasuspender kino, default

using pasuspender also breaks sound on my system, which forces me to "killall pulseaudio && /etc/init.d/pulseaudio" to get it working again.

Yesterday, Kino worked fine. Today, I imported an Mpeg-2 file - and after that I have the same problems: Accelerated playback and no sound.

Turing off sound in Kino produces playback at normal speed - but no sound. :-/

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot), same problem as outlined
padsp kino:: command works OK
adding my voice that it would be good if Kino authors, working with Debian & Cannonical, would get it all working with pulseaudio, and reincarnate the app into present tense
many thanks!

Same problem here on Ubuntu 11.10 as outlined.

The following workarounds did NOT work for me:

* padsp kino
* pasuspender -- kino
* entering "default" as audio device
* entering any other existing audio device which is in /dev/snd/

I had the same problem in Ubuntu 10.10 on a completely different computer. Apparently this bug exists since 2008. I'm asking myself why this program is even in Ubuntu?

padsp kino command works OK for me too.
Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit fully updated.

This is still present in 12.04 (Ubuntu studio), but the previously suggested fix of running with
   $ padsp kino
makes both the sound playback and correct video speech work.

(This works because kino is using the old fashioned dsp audio API. It's been superseeded by ALSA,Pulse and others, but the padsp command provides an emulation of the API from Ubuntu's standard pulseaudio desktop sound system. The Kino developers or maybe ubuntu packagers could easily fix by testing if pulse is running, and automatically switching to this command for the launcher. It could be done with a wrapper script rather than changing kino itself.)

(if padsp doesn't work for some users, they may need to install the padsp program first of course.)

This is still the case with kino version 1.3.4-1.3
padsp workaround works.

please fix.