[MPlayer-users] Problems with mplayer and PulseAudio on Ubuntu 10.04

[Raymond Yau]

2010/5/13 Mihai Sucan <mihai.sucan at gmail.com>

> Hello Reimar et al!
>
> I found the following Ubuntu PPA repo:
>
> https://launchpad.net/~scottritchie/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Escottritchie/+archive/ppa>
>
> ... which includes the latest release of OpenAL. I installed it and now
> mplayer works fine. Yay!
>
> If anyone else has this problem, just upgrade OpenAL. Thanks to everyone,
> and especially to you Reimar for pointing me into the right direction.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Mihai
>
>
The order of  ao can be changed , (i.e. default ao may be different ) some
distrubtion may place pulse as default ao , when pulse failed , mplayer try
to use another ao , finally when all ao failed , it may fall back to use oss
which need exclusive access of the hardware

>
>
> Le Mon, 10 May 2010 22:36:47 +0300, Reimar Döffinger <
> Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> a écrit:
>
>  Simple issue simple solution: Ubuntu as usual completely skipped any and
>> all
>> quality checks (though in this case they are not the only ones) and
>> shippes
>> a completely broken OpenAL version which does ALSA stuff whenever the
>> library
>> gets loaded (whoever came up with this deserves to be banned from any and
>> all
>> software development for at least a year).
>> If PulseAudio is the only thing that this breaks you're lucky.
>> Solutions:
>> 1) Remove OpenAL, completely and compile your own MPlayer
>> 2) Get a non-broken OpenAL package from somewhere and use that instead
>> 3) Use some kind of wrapper library that redirects ALSA accesses or do
>> some
>> other thing that makes sure OpenAL can't actually do anything bad to your
>> soundcard via ALSA.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mihai Sucan
> http://www.robodesign.ro
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