[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #639: Phonon error-messages about not working device after KDE-login.

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#639: Phonon error-messages about not working device after KDE-login.
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  Reporter:  COMER352L  |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect     |      Status:  closed 
 Milestone:             |   Component:  daemon 
Resolution:  elsewhere  |    Keywords:         
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Changes (by coling):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => elsewhere


Comment:

 This is purely an issue with Phonon.

 I'm working towards better support in Phonon, but there is nothing we
 should do at this end.

 In Mandriva we patch phonon to hide all real devices and show only
 PulseAudio output as the only valid option (when pulse is in use, this
 config just doesn't make sense). This avoids this whole issue as phonon no
 longer tries to access the h/w directly but instead goes via the pulse
 layer of gstreamer (our default phonon engine). The xine pulseaudio
 support is sadly lacking so I wouldn't recommend using the xine phonon
 engine on this kind of setup.

 Really the bug is "phonon should not try and perform direct hardware
 access when pulseaudio is in use".

 As I said I'm working towards supporting this (by building up the
 necessary components in pulse to support the UI in phonon).
 http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/06/whats-cooking-in-the-pulse-pot/

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