[arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

Δημακάκος Δημάκης bendersteed at gmail.com
Sat Nov 27 21:20:33 CET 2010


Στις Σάββατο 27 Νοέμβριος 2010 21:11:10 Δημακάκος Δημάκης γράψατε:
> Στις Σάββατο 27 Νοέμβριος 2010 02:17:59 Δημακάκος Δημάκης γράψατε:
> > Στις Παρασκευή 26 Νοέμβριος 2010 22:34:18 Jan Steffens γράψατε:
> > > I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no
> > > feedback on this.
> > > 
> > > This either means it works well, or nobody uses it.
> > > 
> > > So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running
> > > PulseAudio.
> > 
> > I was using pulseaudio from back when it was in the community repo. Still
> > everything goes fine, I am using it with kmix from AUR(pulseaudio
> > enabled) so I can control sound volume on each application and soundcard
> > and of course with xine-lib-pulse for the xine phonon backend.
> > Seems that in KDE 4.6 the support of phonon to pulseaudio will go
> > upstream.
> > 
> > So far so good.
> 
> Update. Seems that pulseaudio is ok but for now unusable with the xine
> backend of phonon. I will try with gstreamer, although I don't like it.
> All these occured since the today's upgrade to phonon 4.4.3. I have sound
> by vlc, alsa-plugin of PA but nothing from phono with xine backend. The
> AUR package xine-lib-pulse doesnot seem to work anymore, so I think
> xine-lib must be rebuilt with pulseaudio support.
> Also from further testing seems that vlc backend of phonon works nice. So
> its definatelly a xine-lib issue.

Mea culpa, it works fine with xine-lib-pulse, but it is in AUR. Also gstreamer 
backend doesn't work. 
Oh, and I guess kmix in testing is pulseaudio enabled, isn't it;


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