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On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 05/22/2010 02:24 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >> On 05/22/2010 01:46 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >>>> On 05/22/2010 12:34 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> >>>>>> This installed PulseAudio and rebuilt all applications to drop OSS |
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> >>>>>> support and use ALSA or Pulse instead. |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> sure? |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Never mind, found the problem after googling a lot: |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2010-January/023768.h |
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> >>>> tm l |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> PA does not work without ConsoleKit, yet the ebuild did not pull CK as |
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> >>>> a dep :-/ Will file a bug about it. |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> As for the results, it's pretty much as I expected: latency cannot |
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> >>>> compete with OSS4's vmix. But it isn't worse than stand-alone |
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> >>>> ALSA+dmix though, which is surprising. |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Another problem: Amarok 2 stopped working. That is, it loads OK, but |
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> >>>> there's no sound at all when playing something with the Xine backend. |
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> >>>> The Gstreamer backend works, but (as always) sound quality sucks (pops |
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> >>>> and crackles). Any way to get Phonon-Xine to work with PA? I tried |
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> >>>> to set "audio.driver:alsa" in ~/.xine/config, but to no avail; still |
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> >>>> no sound. |
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> >>> |
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> >>> yeah, with that set it tries to use alsa, not PA. |
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> >> |
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> >> "audio.driver:pulse" also doesn't work :-/ |
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> >> |
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> >>> Why again are you wasting your time with PA? |
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> >> |
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> >> Because people claim ALSA+Pulse is better than OSS4. So I ought to |
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> >> actually try it "with a correct setup, unlike the broken Ubuntu setup", |
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> >> or else everyone will keep saying I don't know what I'm talking about. |
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> > |
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> > really? There are people claiming that? ok, everything is better than |
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> > OSS4 - but PA? That crap is almost as bad as ESD. |
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> Well if I'm going to use ALSA I need something that gives me |
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> per-application volume control since ALSA is too broken to even provide |
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> that while the rest of the world moved on. |
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funny how I can change the volume in wesnoth or vlc, independent from the |
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rest. You are blaming the wrong people here. |
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