[packman] VLC missing dependency (pulseaudio)

[Jonathan Fischer Friberg]

Uninstalling pulse is not an option for me.
It's also easier to install the pulseaudio for vlc package as I described
above.

So if packman is "broken", should I use the vlc repository instead?


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:44 PM, Hartmut <spieluhr at ewetel.net> wrote:

> Uninstall pulse without the two packages with dependencies and sound works.
>
> Spielmops
>
> Am 20.11.2012 21:25, schrieb Jonathan Fischer Friberg:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm sorry if this has been brought up before. :)
>>
>> So here's the deal:
>> VLC (the package 'vlc') is missing the package 'vlc-aout-pulse' as
>> dependency.
>>
>> 'vlc-aout-pulse' is pulseaudio audio out for vlc.
>> Since opensuse uses pulseaudio by default, this is pretty bad.
>>
>> As I understand it, if 'vlc-aout-pulse' is not present. vlc uses
>> alsa, which sends the sound to pulseaudio.
>> Not only is this bad because of the extra steps, it leads
>> to actual problems with the sound.
>> The problem I had was sound that stopped working after un-pause.
>>
>> Bug which I got the info from:
>> http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/**ticket/5043<http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/5043>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jonathan
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