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Da: Michael Fox <mfoxdogg@gmail.com> A: opensuse-project@opensuse.org Oggetto: [opensuse-project] libpulse problems Data: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:17:28 +1100
Hi all, i was told to post my problems with libpulse here as some kind of confirmation data, on the libpulse problems
first up: Media Players -sound in kaffine is up to 2 seconds out of sync with video.
-Mplayer becomes really choppy as its constantly waiting for the sound to catch up this is also true for vlc.
-Amarok plays very rarely as its playing "non-perfect" mp3's.
removing libpulse and using libxine instead solves these problems
secondly : Dependencies - there are tones of apps that have no relation to libpulse are somehow dependant on libpulse, for instance why does a weather widget for KDE4.2 need libpulse.
-Mplayer was linked against liubpulse so will not run when libpulse is removed but mplayer uses ffmpeg for its codecs so being linked against libpulse seems like unnecessary (ended up building mplayer by hand from svn).
- and many apps that say they need libpulse, but run fine without it when that dependency is ignored, but as i pointed out some apps do not run without lib pulse but could.
thirdly: my 2 cents -libpulse should not be a linked app, any app should be able to run without it, so those like myself who prefer those that are mature and work like xine can use xine without the hindrance of libpulse, also since libpulse is a Gnome framework, why is it being forced on KDE4.2 users when the xine phonem plugin runs with no troubles at all, forcing libpulse on everything does not make opensuse the "most usable distro".
anyway i hope this helps to sort out the libpulse problems
I am currently running:
-opensuse11.1
-KDE4.2:factory -- Michael Fox <mfoxdogg@gmail.com>
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