On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > Hi there! > > Recently, PulseAudio got installed. Seems like gnome-settings-daemon > version 3 no longer has the pulseaudio use flag, so it wants pulseaudio, > which needs alsa-plugins built with the pulseaudio use flag. I wouldn't > mind using PulseAudio, but ist starts automatically when I play movies, > and I get no sound output in mplayer or VLC. And there are weird side > effects, sometimes playback stops, I have to make it run again by > skipping back and forward. Sometimes videos play much faster than normal.
Is MPlayer using PulseAudio? Maybe if it did, the problem would go away; I have this in my ~/.mplayer/config: ao=pulse For sure, VLC has an option to use PA by default also. > So I would like to get rid of it. Is this possible? I don't really use > Gnome, but I like to have it to see how it develops. And I wouldn't like > to remove it just because of a sound problem. GNOME 3 depends (strongly, I think) on PulseAudio; you don't say which version of GNOME are you using, but in GNOME 2 PA was optional. > Maybe the PulseAudio problem is the same as I had with ALSA, I have two > internal cards, and I had to tell ALSA not to prefer the SPDIF one. > Maybe I have to do the same with PulseAudio, but I do not know how. Try media-sound/pavucontrol; you can select which card the sounds goes through, and which output to use (HDMI, for example). > And > the weird playback effects are spooky, I'd prefer to keep things as they > are, at the moment I'm happy with plain ALSA. I don't think it is possible to uninstall completely PA in GNOME 3; I remember it was possible in GNOME 2. > And what is starting the pulseaudio process? I can kill it, but it comes > back the next time I run mplayer. Is there a way to just disable it? If I recall correctly, the GNOME session manager will keep starting PA if the daemon dies. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
