F11 and PulseAudio
Antonio Olivares
olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 20 06:06:25 UTC 2009
> > Before taking a shotgun and killing pulseaudio, try to
> stop it from running and see if the CPU goes back to
> normal?
> >
> > I saw on another list that killing pulseaudio and not
> removing it should help in some way?
> >
> > Hope you can see if that is true if you don't mind of
> course.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> Yes you are right. Problem is that pulseaudio is always
> started automatically.
>
> I would like to stop that from hapening.
> Also, I discovered that the media players themselves in
> FC11 are compiled
> to run with pulseaudio. To wit:
> yum install mplayer gnome-mplayer mplayer-gui
> gnome-mplayer-minimal gnome-mplayer-nautilus
> gnome-mplayer-common mplayer-doc
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package gnome-mplayer.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11 set to be
> updated
> ---> Package gnome-mplayer-common.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11
> set to be updated
> ---> Package gnome-mplayer-minimal.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11
> set to be updated
> ---> Package gnome-mplayer-nautilus.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11
> set to be updated
> ---> Package mplayer.i586 0:1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11
> set to be updated
> --> Processing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) for
> package: mplayer-1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11.i586
> --> Processing Dependency: libpulse.so.0 for package:
> mplayer-1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11.i586
> ---> Package mplayer-doc.i586
> 0:1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11 set to be updated
> ---> Package mplayer-gui.i586
> 0:1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package pulseaudio-libs.i586 0:0.9.15-14.fc11 set
> to be updated
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>
> So, how do I tell mplayer and other media players to NOT
> use pulseaudio?
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
Two or more ways
1)
$ pulseaudio -k
from man
-k --kill Kill a running daemon
2) in ~/.mplayer/config
add a line
ao = alsa
3) or from command line switch
$ mplayer options -ao alsa
directly use alsa instead of ao=pulse
I have noticed that if I install mplayer via rpmfusion or other repo, it(mplayer) uses pulse by default, but if I compile from source it uses the
best -ao option available. Just an observation.
Hope this helps in some way.
Regards,
Antonio
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