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Re: Good music player suggestion



Hello,

On šeštadienis 26 Gegužė 2012 12:24:37 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2012 schrieb Modestas Vainius:
> > Hello,
> 
> Hi Modestas,
> 
> > On ketvirtadienis 24 Gegužė 2012 22:17:26 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > > And guess what with VLC I had a latency for audio playback. After
> > > pressing play the video started immediately but sound was 1-2
> > > seconds late.
> > > 
> > > This is just gone now with VLC directly using ALSA.
> > 
> > Hehe, the last nail in the PulseAudio coffin :)
> 
> Actually I am not so satisfied with this.
> 
> Now I had to fiddle around now to get Phonon and non Phonon apps to play
> audio simultaneously. But I think this time I found a quite good solution:
> 
> /etc/asound.conf:
> 
> pcm.phonon {
>         type plug
>         slave.pcm "dmix"
>         hint {
>                 show on
>                 description "HDA Intel PCH mit Mixer"
>         }
> }
> 
> And I set this as audio output in Phonon.
> 
> Now I can have alsaplayer and Amarok playing simultaneously as dmix is
> already configured in current libasound2. So no further complex dmix
> configuration snippets required as thats already done.
> 
> But then when I switch to a second KDE session sound playback again is
> muted. This even holds after a reboot! Even when alsamixer has all volumes
> up and no channel muted.

Is the second KDE session running under another user? If so, dmix does not 
support more than one user at the same time (as far as I know).


-- 
Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>

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