Re: VLC missing sound [solved]

[Porcia Silvia <esculentum@gmx.co.uk>]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:30:01 +0100
Scott Ferguson wrote:


> > One might ask what made 'PulseAudio Output' the default on this system?
> 
> 
> Would need to know more about your "system" to answer that.... it's a
> requirement in several meta-packages. Possibly your DE (you don't say
> what you're running).

I show Xfce V.4.8

> > Where does one go to see what is the 'default' for these necessary things?
 
> 
> /etc/init.d and /etc/default will tell you a bit.

Thanks for this information
  
> NOTES: the "default" backend for PulseAudio is Xine, you can also choose
> VLC.
> Linux "sound systems" - are confusing. And PulseAudio cops a lot of FUD.
> A good article about it is:-


> https://www.linux.com/news/hardware/drivers/8100-why-you-should-care-about-pulseaudio-and-how-to-start-doing-it

OK

> You mention debian-multimedia earlier in the thread... the upstream
> developers (and the debian packagers) have long warned against mixing
> multimedia and the main debian repositories.

We take our chances.

-- 
ps