'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 19/05/10 16:42 did gyre and gimble: > 'Twas brillig, and Jeremy Nickurak at 19/05/10 16:13 did gyre and gimble: >> Here's a case of an upstream dev absolutely not supporting pulseaudio in >> any way shape or form. Their code specifically disables pulseaudio any >> time they see it. The devs think there's no reason for pulseaudio to >> exist, and that it causes unresolvable problems for their goals >> (specifically regarding sync). >> >> Is pulseaudio capable of meeting this application's needs? Is there >> something on a social/documentation level that's lacking? Are the devs >> just being unreasonable? > > Daniel doesn't deal that much with the audio code so I'm surprised he's > commenting on that bug. There is a new branch of mythtv that will be > merged back in to trunk soon with better PulseAudio support. > > I'm actually surprised that jyavenard reassinged it to Daniel TBH... :s > > FWIW, although I love the MythTV project, it's has a very hard lined > developer community that really doesn't catter to the user community > directly - it's the developers that matter and if that fits in with the > users then cool, but if it doesn't then the user who wants that > feature/improvement/bugfix then they had better get their hands dirty > and code a patch! > > That's maybe not everyone's cup of tea but it works for them and that's > fine. > >> The only thing that I see is clear here is that the users of distros >> that go to pulseaudio are left out in the cold. > > In Mandriva I specifically revert the automatic suspending of PulseAudio > in our MythTV packages. It has always worked fine for me via the alsa > plugin and now the 0.23 version of MythTV support proper pulseaudio > output on it's own (although I actually find the alsa output to suffer > from less sync issues ironically, but YMMV). Oops. Forgot to include the patch I referenced: http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/mythtv/current/SOURCES/mythtv-0.23-enable-pulseaudio-with-alsa-default.patch?revision=541621&view=markup -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
