Hello, On Sun, 15 Jan 2012, Dennis Gallien wrote:
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=
There's probably something (phonon, pulseuadio) claiming that device.
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?
Once you kill that "other" device hogging process: yes.
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?
I know that kmix, kamix and qamix still work. They just need too much screen estate. Install and run gkrellm and that plugin. I use the brnGradien Theme. But concerning screen realestate the theme doesn't matter, AFAIK. Anyway: run gklrellm, and with the (in my case) only needed bars for Master, PCM and Line, thats 3 lines of ~100px width of ~8pt text plus "scrollbars". Configure away, use qamix, whatever ;)
Finally, then what do you have configured under KDE's Phonon backend?
I didn't even install phonon (or as little as possible) and it ist completely ignored. $ rpm -qa '*phonon*' libphonon4-4.4.4-3.1.x86_64 phonon-backend-xine-4.4.4-3.1.x86_64 phonon-4.4.4-3.1.x86_64 Some KDE aps I do want to use won't run without certain libraries installed.
Or doesn't it matter? (And I assume then that KDE notifications and the like still work?)
I have no idea about that. I actively avoid KDE since KDE 1.1.2 in 2001 whereever I can. If you're looking for someone calling KDE3 "bad", I'm not your man. but KDE2 was crap. About KDE3, I've done a few tryouts, nothing stubstatiated. LXDE (as in knoppix)? *yech* Gnome2 light? XFCE? Go along, nothing to see here.... GTK1/2 sucks a lot in and as of itself. Cue Fileselection-Dialogs *blech* (don't worry, the QT dialogs are on par). I kind of HATE KDE. And Gnome too. I use WindowMaker since 2001. IIRC I had to adjust WindowMaker's configuration due to an update once in those 10 years (what's your experience with e.g. kdepim? Since 2001!?). And simply ignore that fancy GUI stuff. My filemanager is mc in an xterm... Notifications? Well, guess what the 'at'-deamon atd is for. And/or crond for repeating jobs like alerting you that tomorrow is your nieces birthday (or whatever). Via mail. Or other means. -dnh, oh, and then there's the analog alarm-clock at my bedside ... -- Not a bad machine overall; the token flaw was that after a few months of use, the left button on the pointing device decided that it felt down. Depressed, as it were. All the time. -- Dan Birchall -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org