Re: a11y and pulseaudio in debian squeeze???

[Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net>]

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