pulseaudio comments

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de
Sat Oct 27 23:04:51 UTC 2007


Kevin Kofler wrote:
> dragoran <drago01 <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> What output did you select in Xine? If it was ALSA, try again with Xine's
>>> native pulseaudio output plugin (which is in xine-lib-extras). If that
>>> works better, then please say so, because in that case we should really
>>> push for getting that moved to the main xine-lib package and used by
>>>  default.
>> there is no reason not do it.
> 
> Actually, the xine-lib maintainer said Lennart Poettering (the PulseAudio 
> author) recommended against it because he thinks the code is not good enough 
> quality. But if it turns out to actually work better than using the ALSA 
> plugin, then it should be the default no matter what.

When I use the Pulseaudio plugin in Xine it tends to become quite 
crash-happy. Using alsa works best for me right now but that seems to have 
problems with some videos too.

Regards,
   Dennis




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