On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 21:06 -0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Hi Sjoerd, > > 2014-03-14 17:57 GMT-01:00 Sjoerd Simons <[email protected]>: > > On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 22:17 +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > >> severity 741531 wishlist > >> thanks > >> > >> 2014-03-13 15:18 GMT+01:00 Sjoerd Simons <[email protected]>: > > The passthrough issue has been fixed since Gotham though as it can now > > properly speak pulse. I didn't check the details of the xbmc code, but > > ofcourse it would be nice if it could use pulseaudio when pulseaudio is > > running and otherwise fall back to ALSA. > > > > If you use XBMC in a standalone HTPC setup, pulseaudio does not really > > add much so using just alsa there is fine.. When your box also runs a > > desktop environment, typically it will run pulseaudio so the pulseaudio > > sink is quite helpful there. > I will enable PulseAudio again in Beta 2 upload next week.
That's great thank you! > > > >> However I'm a bit uncomfortable with the change due to the (IMO) high > >> number > >> of unclassified bugs in PulseAudio [3]. Maybe submitting an RFH would > >> make PulseAudio package gain some more attention? > > > > I've done that ages ago, yielded exactly no help, people tend to prefer > > complaining and ranting about pulseaudio instead of triaging bugs. > > Ofcourse feel free to help out, there is quite a bit of bug triaging to > > be done which i have little time for :) > If you don't mind I would like to reopen the RFH to state that the maintenance > team would like to solve the lack of manpower available for > maintaining PulseAudio. If you feel that's beneficial, please do :) > I also plan solving few bugs, many of them seem to be trivial. Can I commit > to the git repository? Yes please! All help is very welcome. If you sign up for pkg-pulseaudio on alioth i'll add you. -- Sjoerd Simons <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
