Re: a11y and pulseaudio in debian squeeze???
Hi.
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 03:06:57PM +0200, Aldo wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:45:56PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Aldo, le Mon 27 Jul 2009 12:25:52 +0200, a écrit :
> > > you can't make 99% of current users pay for the 0.9% of audio-minded people
> > > who are needing an advanced but problematic product born from alsa.
> >
> > That'd precisely why Debian doesn't install pulseaudio by default.
> > We're mostly just wondering why Ubuntu considered installing it by
> > default.
>
> Well I personally wondered why it does work correctly in Ubuntu while I see
> here a merge of both, als and pulse packages, and for example when streaming
> with mplayer you clearly see it's pulse who's used:
You see alsa and pulse because both are needed. Pulseaudio still needs alsa to work. The Ubuntu
mplayer package has been rebuilt to use pulseaudio as default audio output.
Kenny
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