On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Pulseaudio sucks. See what happens when I pass "-alsa-pb default" argument to pulseaudio: > > 1) ssh section. User is the same as the console owner: > > ALSA lib pulse.c:229:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Connection refused > Cannot open ALSA Playback device default: Connection refused > > 2) console, with mmap enabled: > > Alsa devices: cap: hw:1,0 (/dev/video0), out: default > Access type not available for playback: Invalid argument > Unable to set parameters for playback stream: Invalid argument > Alsa stream started, capturing from hw:1,0, playing back on default at 1 Hz with mmap enabled > write error: File descriptor in bad state > ... > write error: File descriptor in bad state > > 3) console, with mmap disabled: > > Alsa devices: cap: hw:1,0 (/dev/video0), out: default > Alsa stream started, capturing from hw:1,0, playing back on default at 1 Hz > write error: Input/output error > ... > write error: Input/output error > > Pulseaudio needs first to be fixed in order to work like an alsa device, before > having applications supporting it as default. People have been screaming about Pulseaudio for *years*, and those concerns/complaints have largely fallen on deaf ears. Lennart works for Red Hat too - maybe you can convince him to take these issues seriously. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
