On 11/04/2020 09:30 PM, ael via Linphone-users wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 09:11:44PM +0100, Roland Häder wrote: >> Mostly you need to install the proper package and add your user to the >> proper group (mostly "sound"). So no need to fiddle with permissions. :-) > Worth checking, but those error messages don't sound like permissions. > > aplay -l > > will list the alsa devices on a system (see man aplay) and that may > throw some light on the problems. > > I assume that you don't have pulseaudio on your system: just say no :-) > If pulseaudio *is* there, you could try getting linphone to use that > if it happens to work. Many people try to purge pulseaudio... > > But I am not an expert on any of this. > > ael Pulseaudio gave me also a lot headaches here. For example MPlayer was playing back videos with stuttering sound, once I uninstalled PA, the sound was playing back smoothly (ALSA).
Pulseaudio seem to "block" the sound device, means reserves it exclusively to itself. I only needed PA for OBS to work (playback own spoken words), else I run perfectly fine without it. Roland
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