[gstreamer-bugs] [Bug 118033] Autodetect audiosink at run-time

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 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118033
 GStreamer | gst-plugins | Ver: HEAD CVS





------- Additional Comments From Ronald Bultje  2005-03-05 15:50 -------
Hm, OK, there's a reason for that. A default system has a bunch of sounddaemons
installed: esd, polyp, sometimes artsd (KDE). If GNOME is running, I don't want
to start artsd, and the other way around. Therefore, we should only start it *if
it is set up to start*. Now, we cannot detect that. Because a user could
theoretically setup artsd to use esd, or something creepy with polypaudio in
GNOME, so who knows.

Therefore, we only say an audiosink is preferred if it is explicitely set to run
(e.g. for esd by setting ESPEAKER for remote sound) or if it is running already.
Within those boundaries, it's - again - rank-based. Sound-servers are always
preferred over native sound. Native sound will be used if no soundserver is
setup (i.e. like how Fedora does it), again rank-based.

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