[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio 0.16-test4 - my experience

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 07.08.09 02:51, Maxim Levitsky (maximlevitsky at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 17:06 +0300, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
> > So I carefully set everything up for it, and it now works (except 32 bit
> > compat libraries for skype )
> > 
> > Speaking of 32 bit compat libraries, is there a tutorial how to compile
> > these? (It isn't trivial, since I need alsa, pa libraries and plugins
> > for alsa)
> > 
> > 
> > 1 - all sounds played through libcanberra (using pulse backend) (which
> > was installed from source (everything from latest git branches), play on
> > right speaker only, and this is confirmed by pavucontrol which display
> > the volume for notify sound briefly (which I consider a bug on its own,
> > because this makes it impossible to change a stream location - clicking
> > on the stream chooser button, takes focus out of it, thus prevents
> > device list from being shown)
> > It displays "front right"
> Small progress, this only happens with pulse backend of canberra, which
> isn't used in 9.04, which explains why I see that bug now.
> It is probably the canberra bug, maybe it doesn't tell pulse that sound
> is mono? (I think that notify sounds are mono)

Hmm, Ubuntu didn't use the pa backend for libcanberra? Oh my!

Hmm, we had some recent changes in the surround sound handling in
libcanberra. Which version are you running?

> > 2 - flat volumes are evil. It feels like a feature being removed. Now
> > changing a volume for a stream directly affects main volume, and alsa
> > volume through it.
> > I though that one of main PA features, was a volume control per stream.
> > Could you explain me what flat volumes are (I know that turning them off
> > fixes this issue)?
> 
> Just one issue though. If a stream is played at low volume, and I click
> a button, a noise sound is emmited and it almost covers the notify
> sound.
> maybe this is a HW fault, or I suspect that PA reconfigures the played
> sound to play at lower volume, and this gives that noise sound. Anyway
> this is a bug.

I don't follow. Could you explain this again?

Lennart

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