On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates <aleck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2
>
>
> On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <can...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org>
>> wrote:
>> > Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
>> >
>> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org>
>> >> wrote:
>> >
>> >>> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon
>> >>> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants
>> >>> pulseaudio,
>> >>> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I
>> >>> wouldn't
>> >>> mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play
>> >>> movies,
>> >>> and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side
>> >>> effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by
>> >>> skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than
>> >>> normal.
>> >>
>> >> Is MPlayer using PulseAudio? Maybe if it did, the problem would go
>> >> away; I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config:
>> >>
>> >> ao=pulse
>> >> For sure, VLC has an option to use PA by default also.
>> >
>> > Oh, I think it does, but there was no sound output. Sorry for not
>> > mentioning this. I had to switch manually to another sound device, HDA
>> > ATI something, I cannot look now because I am not near my desktop PC.
>> >
>> > If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't
>> > already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still
>> > work?
>>
>> Of course. I have been using PulseAudio since it became stable in
>> Gentoo (circa October 2010); in my experience, making everything sound
>> related going through PulseAudio makes everything work. Most modern
>> applications support directly PulseAudio; for the old ones that don't,
>> you can make all ALSA sound go through PulseAudio like this:
>>
>> # cat /etc/asound.conf
>> pcm.!default {
>> type pulse
>> }
>>
>> ctl.!default {
>> type pulse
>> }
>>
>> (If you want it for all users; for your user only, use $HOME/.asoundrc).
>
> I believe this fix is no longer necessary in the latest version of
> alsa-plugins, 1.0.25-r1 (with the pulseaudio USE flag of course).
> Definitely don't have this config change on my systems. I recall a blog
> post from a couple months ago explaining this fix.
I would like a link to that blog post. I haven't read anything about it.
Regards.
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Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
