On 2010-06-11 19:31, Andres Mejia wrote: > severity 585555 wishlist > tags 585555 wontfix > thanks > > Considering the integration of pulseaudio by many distributions and projects, > and considering the fact that Debian's gnome package ultimitely depends on > pulseaudio through it's dependencies, it's reasonable to assume that > pulseaudio will be installed on a user's machine, for the majority case. > > Also, I think having the sound device taken over by one program, leaving > other > programs with no sound, is a bigger issue than waiting a few seconds for > mplayer to start playback. > > On Friday 11 June 2010 12:13:36 Pascal Gervais wrote: >> Package: mplayer >> Version: 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502-3 >> Severity: normal >> >> Hi >> >> Since the update from version 2:1.0~rc3+svn20090426 to version >> 2:1.0~rc3+svn20100502 in May 2010, mplayer takes six to seven seconds >> before starting to play any video and audio, trying to find pulseaudio >> on a system where pulseaudio is not installed. >> >> So, can you please let ao=pulse,alsa,sdl:aalib commented in >> /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf and add in README.Debian that pulseaudio >> users should use ao=pulse in ~/.mplayer/config or specify the '-ao >> pulse' option on their command line. >> >> Thanks
Wouldn't it be a better solution to try to troubleshoot why it takes so long for the pa driver to detect that PA is not installed? // David _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
