Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi there!
> >
> > 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.
>
> > So I would like to get rid of it. Is this possible? I don't really use
> > Gnome, but I like to have it to see how it develops. And I wouldn't like
> > to remove it just because of a sound problem.
>
> GNOME 3 depends (strongly, I think) on PulseAudio; you don't say which
> version of GNOME are you using, but in GNOME 2 PA was optional.
>
> > Maybe the PulseAudio problem is the same as I had with ALSA, I have two
> > internal cards, and I had to tell ALSA not to prefer the SPDIF one.
> > Maybe I have to do the same with PulseAudio, but I do not know how.
>
> Try media-sound/pavucontrol; you can select which card the sounds goes
> through, and which output to use (HDMI, for example).
>
> > And
> > the weird playback effects are spooky, I'd prefer to keep things as they
> > are, at the moment I'm happy with plain ALSA.
>
> I don't think it is possible to uninstall completely PA in GNOME 3; I
> remember it was possible in GNOME 2.
>
> > And what is starting the pulseaudio process? I can kill it, but it comes
> > back the next time I run mplayer. Is there a way to just disable it?
>
> If I recall correctly, the GNOME session manager will keep starting PA
> if the daemon dies.
I am not using pulse audio -- I told portage I had it and that seemed to
make the packages happy -- I will see what happens.
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