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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

[solved] Pulseaudio confusion

I just followed pulseaudio article on wiki with pulse as default then installed libflashsupport-pulse from AUR

Everything is working like a charm... really made my night when I saw flash + other applications in harmony, so lastly I started switching mplayer to use pulse output instead of alsa and well it didn't work, same with other applications. Is it supposed to be like that or is there something wrong with a config file?

It doesn't really bother me but well I just want to learn this for future reference I can always just use ALSA output

Last edited by akurashy (2009-08-15 05:49:46)

ngoonee

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Re: [solved] Pulseaudio confusion

You would really need to give more details than that... Any error messages if run from the terminal? Versions used? What are the 'other applications' that work, and which besides mplayer don't?

Last I recall, mplayer isn't pulse-enabled by default (just like mpd), you need to install something like mplayer-pulse from the AUR (just search for something along those lines).

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akurashy

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Registered: 2006-05-29

Posts: 75

Re: [solved] Pulseaudio confusion

It seems I got ahead of something that never managed to compile (don't know what happened, must have been the abrupt restart)

mplayer-pulse is compiling once again so I went ahead and tested with XMMS2 changed from alsa to pulse via commandline, it's working

Thanks for answering! I'd hope I have no problem after this with mplayer-pulse

Edit: mplayer-pulse working like a charm

Last edited by akurashy (2009-08-15 06:07:11)