Am 18.04.2013 21:48, schrieb Michael Mol: > On 04/18/2013 03:32 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > [snip] > >> So, I grasped the nettle, put in a negative pulseaudio use flag, unmerged >> pa and alsa-plugins, then rebuilt the 14 packages which needed it. >> >> Surprisingly, everything still works. I now get those last seconds from >> my news streams. :-) >> >> So, yes, I can recomment the removal of pulseaudio, unless anybody's got >> some particular need for it. > IME, there is one application that all but forces the use of PulseAudio: > Flash. Once Flash grabs onto an ALSA device, it doesn't let go, so you > *must* route it through PA if you would like to reliably use it with > anything else. > > My particular discovery was that if I launched WoW under WINE, and then > launched a browser, audio in WoW worked fine. If I launched the browser > first (which resulted in a flash applet being loaded in GMail for the > purpose of audio notifications for google talk), Flash grabbed the ALSA > device and no WINE application could get at it. Routing both through > PulseAudio solved the problem.
/I can have as many flash instances as I want and still listen to stuff being played in vlc. Without pulseaudio crap. Maybe wine just sucks?/
