[mythtv] No Start with Pulse Audio (Changeset 20310)

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Stuart Morgan at 10/04/09 20:20 did gyre and gimble:
>> Oh. It's third (or fourth?) sound daemon for Linux in last 10 years,
>> invented to fix all bugs of the previous solutions, and they still
>> cannot get it done right? :-)
> 
> Pretty much, since most of the problems are with the underlying kernel sound 
> system - aka ALSA. There are a lot of people who'd like to see the death of 
> ALSA in favour of something like OSS4.
> 
> PulseAudio is just attempting to paper over the cracks, but ALSA has some big 
> cracks .... grand canyon big.

Sorry for not replying on this topic before. I generally keep up-to-date 
with this list, but I've not looked for a while.

If there is anything I can do here, please let me know. I do quite a bit 
of hacking on pulseaudio, so any problem you're having, I can try and 
sort things out.


I certainly believe that a better solution than just exiting when pulse 
is enabled can be found!

While I agree that alsa does have some problems, its a bit unfair to 
classify pulse as just wallpaper! It's doing it's own job that is 
distinct and separate from ALSA. But I digress.

Is there a specific problem with the pulseaudio support patch? If so, 
perhaps I can help make it better if I can be told what's wrong. Would 
detecting pulse and switching to that output system be acceptable?

Col

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