[arch-general] pavucontrol depency question
Hi all, some time ago xfce sorted out xfce4-mixer in favour of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. - agreed removing xfce4-mixer - Installed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin - no sound mixing available at all - Installed optional dependency pavucontrol - no sound mixing available - no connection to pulseaudio server - Installed optional dependency pulsaudio - yay! sound mixing up an running. I don't understand much about dependency quirks but I wonder about the reason both dependencies beeing made optional. xfce4-pulsaudio-plugin is out of any functionality without working pavucontrol pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server. So what is the reason making both dependencies optional? -- Friedrich
pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another
machine's pulseaudio instance over the network:
$ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol
Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi all,
some time ago xfce sorted out xfce4-mixer in favour of xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin. - agreed removing xfce4-mixer - Installed xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin - no sound mixing available at all - Installed optional dependency pavucontrol - no sound mixing available - no connection to pulseaudio server - Installed optional dependency pulsaudio - yay! sound mixing up an running.
I don't understand much about dependency quirks but I wonder about the reason both dependencies beeing made optional. xfce4-pulsaudio-plugin is out of any functionality without working pavucontrol pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server.
So what is the reason making both dependencies optional? -- Friedrich
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Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general:
pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another machine's pulseaudio instance over the network:
$ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol
Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them.
Hi, You can use the pulseaudio client library to send audio to a pulseaudio server in your network. That works only for software using libpulse, though. It probably won't work for connections through pulseaudio-alsa. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_over_net... -- Andy
On 20 Mar 2017 10:41 a.m., "ProgAndy"
pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another machine's pulseaudio instance over the network:
$ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol
Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them.
Hi,
You can use the pulseaudio client library to send audio to a pulseaudio server in your network. That works only for software using libpulse, though. It probably won't work for connections through pulseaudio-alsa. pulseaudio-alsa works fine with a remote pulse server if you properly configure the client library. My desktop has streamed all audio to a different device for years without problem. And that included audio from alsa-only applications. -- Maarten
Hi Christoph, Andy, Marten, *, Am 20.03.2017 um 10:06 schrieb Christoph Gysin via arch-general:
pavucontrol works fine without pulseaudio, if you control another machine's pulseaudio instance over the network:
wasn't aware about the network possibility which finally makes perfectly sense making pavucontrol an optional dependency for the local setup.
$ PULSE_SERVER=another-box pavucontrol
Not sure about xfce4 packages, don't use them.
other story - probably worth, filing a bug.
On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 1:11 AM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
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pavucontrol is out of any functionality without a running pulseaudio server.
So what is the reason making both dependencies optional?
so thank you all for enlightening :o)) -- Friedrich
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Christoph Gysin
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Friedrich Strohmaier
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Maarten de Vries
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ProgAndy