On 30/11/11 12:23, Porcia Silvia wrote: > This problem was caused by VLC selecting the 'default' output module under > audio settings [menu: Tools-Preferences-Audio Settings-Output] > > The drop down menu shows in this case: 'default' and I thought ALSA was the > default but apparently not..anyway I selected ALSA in the menu this then > materialized two other options: a S/PDIF select box and Device: with another > drop down menu. Audio came under the selection: Xonar D1: Multichannel > (hw:0,0) > > [not] default, Xonar D1: Digital (hw:0,1) or Audioengine (etc. etc) > > One might ask what made 'PulseAudio Output' the default on this system?
Would need to know more about your "system" to answer that.... it's a requirement in several meta-packages. Possibly your DE (you don't say what you're running). > > Where does one go to see what is the 'default' for these necessary things? > /etc/init.d and /etc/default will tell you a bit. Glad you have VLC working now. NOTES: the "default" backend for PulseAudio is Xine, you can also choose VLC. Linux "sound systems" - are confusing. And PulseAudio cops a lot of FUD. A good article about it is:- https://www.linux.com/news/hardware/drivers/8100-why-you-should-care-about-pulseaudio-and-how-to-start-doing-it You mention debian-multimedia earlier in the thread... the upstream developers (and the debian packagers) have long warned against mixing multimedia and the main debian repositories. Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ed5a288.7070...@gmail.com
