[packman] VLC missing dependency (pulseaudio)

[Jonathan Fischer Friberg]

It's not an option because pulseaudio works really well. :)

Pulseaudio has easily been the sound system with the least problems for me.
Sure, it weren't always like this. A couple of years back, pulseaudio was
pretty bad.
The reason for that was probably that most applications didn't support it,
still, it didn't work that well.
Nowadays it's a different story.


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Hartmut <spieluhr at ewetel.net> wrote:

>  Why is uninstalling pulse not an option for you? My soundsystem is
> working fine with everything without pulse. Do not mix vlc and packman
> packages, the multimedia-part of linux-club is full of threads from those
> who did ...
>
> Packman repository broken? Perhaps it's a problem with yum? I work with
> multimedia-packages from packman since years and it works best until now.
>
> Spielmops
>
> Am 20.11.2012 22:49, schrieb 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
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jonathan
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