Pulseaudio problems
Lubomir Kundrak
lkundrak at redhat.com
Sun Nov 18 11:55:08 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 08:35 -0200, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to adapt myself to pulseaudio (F8 x86_64).
>
> I had to change /etc/security/console.perms.d/50-default.perms
> so I can use another X screen (:1) without being root, and without
> using pulse.
> Otherwise, I hear no sound using mplayer (this is how I send a movie
> to an ordinary TV).
>
> After testing several applications, this is what I got so far
> trying to use pulseaudio with plugins (not using alsa generic
> plugin):
>
> MythTV: NO sound at all (therefore, pulse can not be a global default
> for me)
> mplayer (patched): OK
> mplayerplug-in: OK
> rhythmbox: OK
> amarok: OK
> xmms: OK
> audacious 1.4: OK with ESD (stutters a lot with its own pulse plugin).
> mpd 0.13: NO sound (it has the plugin, though).
> ampache (flash player): OK
> xine: NO. Sound disappears after a few seconds.
> vlc: NO plugin available.
>
> Also, after an interval of time of maybe 10 to 20 min I hear a fast
> hiccup
> using amarock. I mean, the sound vanishes (but it is very fast), and
> it will happen
> again 10 min later, and so on...
>
> I also noticed that using
>
> arecord -D hw:0.0 -d 0 -f S16_LE -c2 -r48000 | aplay -D pulse &
>
> for capturing from line in.
>
> I have two sound cards:
>
> [cascavel:~/SRPMS/vlc] more /proc/asound/cards
>
> 0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
> HDA Intel at 0x92300000 irq 22
> 1 [VirMIDI ]: VirMIDI - VirMIDI
> Virtual MIDI Card 1
> 2 [Bt878 ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878
> Brooktree Bt878 at 0x92000000, irq 18
> 3 [CMI8738 ]: CMI8738-MC6 - C-Media CMI8738
> C-Media CMI8738 (model 55) at 0x1000, irq 21
>
> The good part, is that I can switch between sound cards very easily
> and
> switch users and resume what I was playing before in gnome.
>
> Sorry if I am writing to the wrong list, but I think this kind of
> information
> can be useful for the developers.
Bugzilla [1] will definitel be a more appropriate place than a mailing
list. Please file a bug report there.
[1] http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
Thanks,
--
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)
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