On Sunday, January 15, 2012 01:00 PM David Haller wrote:
Hah, that one's easy: use neither :P
$ grep -i alsa ~/.xine/config ~/.mplayer/config ~/.config/vlc/vlcrc /home/dh/.xine/config:audio.driver:alsa /home/dh/.mplayer/config:ao=alsa /home/dh/.config/vlc/vlcrc:aout=alsa
With that, I can play the very same file in all three players at the same time; depending on offset, it's a cacophony, but it's very clear that each player's sound is output and mixed correctly by alsa.
The only thing that I occasionally miss (to some extent) and what I'm told pulseaudio can do is a "per app volume setting". Apart from that: I don't need no gstreamer,phonon,pulseaudio or whatever. Plain ALSA suffices.
Oh, and BTW: I use the "GKrellM Volume Plugin 2.1.x" as a "mixer". Just what I need in a configurable part of screen estate, in my case it's about 100x50px...
That's great. Questions, if ya don't mind, I have zero experience with this . . . The error I get from vlc is that device hw:0,0 is not available. In the config file I've got: alsa-audio-device=hw:0,0 . . #aout= So just changing the aout parm to alsa will fix that, or do I need to do something with the audio-device as well? And in xine's config? Re the mixer, would Kmix still work? Or should I use Kamix or one of the other alsa mixers? Does the mixer need to be configured in the config files, too? Finally, then what do you have configured under KDE's Phonon backend? Or doesn't it matter? (And I assume then that KDE notifications and the like still work?) Thanks in advance!!! Finally, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org