Re: Pulseaudio problems--certain parts not playing
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 18:10 -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi, I have Pulseaudio set up on my sid machine, and after following the configuratoin examples, things have been working fine.
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> But recently some parts (i dont know the right word--channel, track, source?) stop working and i cant tell why.
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> When I first boot the machine everything works. But right now, for instance, i can play YouTube videos and get sound, but thats it. I get no sound with Totem, or Audacious, or even with another web browser.
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> I dont even know what details to report--i look at the Pulseaudio Manager and things look OK, but i dont know what to look for. There are no message in /var/log/messages. And i dont know why this starts to happen, its not connected to anything like suspend/resume. All i know is that right now i can watch YouTube but cant play an mp3.
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> Where do i go to try to figure this out?
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> Thanks!
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> Jen
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The problems are probably stemming from your browser's Flash plugin. I
had similar problems - everything worked until the first time a Flash
object in a page (like Youtube) tried to play audio. After that no other
applications could access the audio resources they needed and even
closing the browser didn't help.
I've no handy solution, since after way too much messing around with
configuration files, I took the easy option and killed off PulseAudio.
IMHO, there are still too many applications that don't work nicely
enough with Pulse to make it worth the hassle*.
--
Mark.
* "Pulse is the software that currently breaks your audio."
-- Lennart Poettering, lead developer on PulseAudio
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