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On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Alecks Gates <alecks.g@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Alecks Gates, sent from Android on an HTC G2 |
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> On Apr 11, 2012 12:04 AM, "Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> |
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>> wrote: |
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>> > Canek Peláez Valdés writes: |
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>> >> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> |
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>> >> wrote: |
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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 |
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>> >>> pulseaudio, |
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>> >>> which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I |
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>> >>> wouldn't |
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>> >>> mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play |
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>> >>> 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 |
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>> >>> 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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>> > Oh, I think it does, but there was no sound output. Sorry for not |
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>> > mentioning this. I had to switch manually to another sound device, HDA |
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>> > ATI something, I cannot look now because I am not near my desktop PC. |
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>> > If it would just work, then I could make my players use it if they don't |
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>> > already. But what about old applications like Quake3, will they still |
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>> > work? |
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>> Of course. I have been using PulseAudio since it became stable in |
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>> Gentoo (circa October 2010); in my experience, making everything sound |
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>> related going through PulseAudio makes everything work. Most modern |
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>> applications support directly PulseAudio; for the old ones that don't, |
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>> you can make all ALSA sound go through PulseAudio like this: |
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>> # cat /etc/asound.conf |
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>> pcm.!default { |
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>> type pulse |
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>> } |
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>> ctl.!default { |
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>> type pulse |
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>> } |
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>> (If you want it for all users; for your user only, use $HOME/.asoundrc). |
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> I believe this fix is no longer necessary in the latest version of |
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> alsa-plugins, 1.0.25-r1 (with the pulseaudio USE flag of course). |
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> Definitely don't have this config change on my systems. I recall a blog |
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> post from a couple months ago explaining this fix. |
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I would like a link to that blog post. I haven't read anything about it. |
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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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