Hello Colin! Thanks for your clarifications. Le Sun, 09 May 2010 14:23:14 +0300, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> a ?crit: > Hi, > > Just for clarity to others reading, we discussed and tried to debug this > issue a lot on IRC already, so I'm familiar with the problem. > > 'Twas brillig, and Mihai Sucan at 09/05/10 12:06 did gyre and gimble: >> 4. somehow i think that mplayer -ao pulse does "pretty much the same" as >> it does mplayer -ao oss from the rvm Ubuntu PPA. The latter did take >> control of the sound card, via OSS. The former does somehow take control >> of the sound card, pulseaudio looses it, then mplayer happily goes on to >> use pulseaudio for subsequent audio stream output, but now ... >> pulseaudio >> is silenced. > > Well mplayer -ao oss will bypass pulse completely and, as you say, > basically "hog" the sound h/w. You can theoretically use: > padsp mplayer -ao oss > > and that should redirect oss output via PA too, but this may or may not > work overly reliably (aka YMMV). The result of calling padsp mplayer -ao oss is the same: 1. I can see now mplayer with OSS emulation in pavucontrol, vu meter is fine, audio stream activity, etc. 2. I hear no sound, pulseaudio is borked/hogged. 3. Changing the card profile back and forth does make it work, while mplayer is running. So, no luck. Best regards, Mihai -- Mihai Sucan http://www.robodesign.ro
