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FS#12919 - [mplayer] lacks proper pulse audio support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Emily Naomi (emily) - Friday, 23 January 2009, 21:23 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 06 July 2009, 16:50 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Hugo Doria (hdoria)
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
Although MPlayer in SVN supports pulse audio natively, the native pulse audio support was not compiled into mplayer-28374-1, forcing the use of the dirty ALSA compatibility layer hack in order to have sound when running a system that uses pulse audio.


Additional info:
Package Version - 28347-1


Steps to reproduce:
Install mplayer-28347-1 and try using pulse as audio output.
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Monday, 06 July 2009, 16:50 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  All packages that can have pulseaudio support will get it shortly after pulseaudio will be moved to Extra. In case the package will be forgotten - please reopen this report.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Saturday, 24 January 2009, 00:16 GMT
Thats because pulseaudio isnt in the extra repository.
Comment by Emily Naomi (emily) - Saturday, 24 January 2009, 04:38 GMT
Ah, aidsy. Still annoying anyway. >_>
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 16:37 GMT
there are 4 other feature requests about adding pulseaudio support to some apps.
I'll leave this report open just to not forget.
When/If JGC adds pulseaudio to Extra (for Gnome) - I think all/most of apps that have pulseaudio backends will be rebuilt to optionally support pulseaudio too.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 17:53 GMT
@Roman: offtopic but relevant to this report. What about the recent changes in [community] and the repo being more official etc?
Will this mean that eg. mplayer will have pulseaudio support BECAUSE pulseaudio is in community?
Maybe the wrong place to ask, but its an issue primarily Devs but also TU's will have to figure out.
I hope you understand what my point is.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 20:58 GMT
@Grigorios: I haven't been following aur-general ML for a long time, and I still have to catch up with all news in devland after my long absence, so I'm not sure about your question.
So far none of packages in extra got support for pulseaudio because it was in community.
Unless it is allowed for extra packages to makedepend on community packages now - I doubt someone will move pulseaudio to extra (at least I cannot remember interest in doing that) before Gnome will start to require it.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Monday, 26 January 2009, 21:22 GMT
When a step like this takes place, making [community] more or less official, what i describe above would be the next step.
I am certainly not saying that this step should be done now. Just that its the next logical step, and expect questions
regarding that, just like this BR, as the distinction between the repos might soon not be that clear as it were before.
WB BTW:)
Comment by Chris Giles (Chris.Giles) - Wednesday, 04 March 2009, 09:51 GMT
FYI, an "mplayer-pulse" package has recently been added to AUR. Its URL is: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24344

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