[packman] Re: [PM] MPlayer 1.0rc1try3 (openSUSE 10.2/i586)

[Wade Berrier]

Howdy,

On 6/13/07, Henne Vogelsang <hvogel at hennevogel.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday, June 11, 2007 at 14:19:07, Wade Berrier wrote:
>
> > Mind including this patch for pulseaudio (formerly polypaudio) support?  I
> > adapted the patch listed from this page:
> >
> > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#MPlayer
> >
> > And added a few bits to the spec file.
> >
> > Anyway, pulse audio works quite well with MPlayer.  Drastic improvement over
> > esd in that pulse actually works :)
>
> You are the first person to request this. I try to avoid too much
> dependencies on external libraries because the percentage of people not
> using the installation source but downloading single package is still
> pretty high. But anyway i will think about it because i like pulseaudio
> :)
>
> Ill let you know. Is that patch upstream in mplayer?

I didn't see the patch in mplayer's sources.  Looks like it was pushed
pretty hard, but was never actually committed:

http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2006-July/044632.html

In doing some more testing of the patch, I noticed that I can change
volumes, but if I hold the volume changer key down, mplayer locks up.
I'm CC'ing Lennart (as well as reattaching the patch) in case he may
know what's going on there.

Wade

P.S. I sent out a mail to some of the opensuse lists to see if there
were any plans on making utilizing pulseaudio as a default desktop
sound system.  Unfortunately, I haven't gotten much of a response...
seems like a really nice desktop solution.