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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Hi there! |
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> Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon |
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> version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, |
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> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't |
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> mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play movies, |
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> and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side |
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> effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by |
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> skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than normal. |
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Is MPlayer using PulseAudio? Maybe if it did, the problem would go |
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away; I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config: |
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ao=pulse |
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For sure, VLC has an option to use PA by default also. |
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> So I would like to get rid of it. Is this possible? I don't really use |
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> Gnome, but I like to have it to see how it develops. And I wouldn't like |
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> to remove it just because of a sound problem. |
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GNOME 3 depends (strongly, I think) on PulseAudio; you don't say which |
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version of GNOME are you using, but in GNOME 2 PA was optional. |
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> Maybe the PulseAudio problem is the same as I had with ALSA, I have two |
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> internal cards, and I had to tell ALSA not to prefer the SPDIF one. |
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> Maybe I have to do the same with PulseAudio, but I do not know how. |
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Try media-sound/pavucontrol; you can select which card the sounds goes |
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through, and which output to use (HDMI, for example). |
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> And |
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> the weird playback effects are spooky, I'd prefer to keep things as they |
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> are, at the moment I'm happy with plain ALSA. |
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I don't think it is possible to uninstall completely PA in GNOME 3; I |
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remember it was possible in GNOME 2. |
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> And what is starting the pulseaudio process? I can kill it, but it comes |
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> back the next time I run mplayer. Is there a way to just disable it? |
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If I recall correctly, the GNOME session manager will keep starting PA |
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if the daemon dies. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
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