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aardwolf

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[Solved]Only one program at the time can make sound with pulseaudio???

Hello,

I always used just ALSA afaik. I had no pulseaudio installed at all. Then Skype 4.3 came and made no sound, so I read I should install pulseaudio. So I did, and rebooted.

Now, only one program can make sound at the same time! XMMS and Skype cannot both make sound at the same time. This used to work.

How to support multilple programs making sound at the same time with pulseaudio?

It's as if my computer is back in the middle ages, in some ancient times where only one thing could make sound at the time...

Thanks!

EDIT: It is only Skype and Other Programs that cannot make sound together. And it is NOT the " module-role-cork" thing. That one is already disabled, and the behaviour is different: if XMMS, or a Flash game, or whatever, is making sound, then Skype cannot make sound but will queue its sound and play it after the fact when Flash is closed or stop is pressed in XMMS. If on the other hand Skype is making sound, then XMMS gives an error about "can't open audio" when pressing "play". So the audio device is really getting blocked for others...

Last edited by aardwolf (2014-06-29 21:49:16)

WorMzy

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Re: [Solved]Only one program at the time can make sound with pulseaudio???

What, exactly, did you install? Was it just pulseaudio? Or did you install pulseaudio-alsa too? (Check pacman.log if you're not sure)

Have you seen the Arch wiki page about pulseaudio? Is this part helpful in particular?

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aardwolf

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2005-07-23

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Re: [Solved]Only one program at the time can make sound with pulseaudio???

I hadn't installed pulseaudio-alsa... I will try that now and reboot.

EDIT: That did it!! Thanks!! Didn't know so many separate packages were necessary just to let programs play sound...

Last edited by aardwolf (2014-06-29 19:54:20)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved]Only one program at the time can make sound with pulseaudio???

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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