[pulseaudio-discuss] Sending all audio out S/PDIF

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 29.08.09 13:08, Nasa (nasa01 at comcast.net) wrote:

> > The recommended way to start PA is via
> > /etc/xdg/autostart/pulseaudio.desktop (for x11 sessions) and
> > autospawning (for the console and as extra safety net).
> > 
> > In fact PA upstream installs itself that way out-of-the-box...
> > 
> I am starting the frontend via mingetty/xsession -- so I don't think 
> the autostart option would work...
> 
> I can start it from xsession -- but it doesn't work.  I can't play audio 
> from anything within the X session, but if I kill the X session I can do a 
> "pulseaudio --check" and/or play audio -- and both basically work  (although
> the sound can be cracking some of the time).

You are aware that PA is a user daemon? It needs to run as the same
user as its clients.

> BTW: it seems if pulseaudio dameon isn't started, mplayer will start it any
> ways when attempting to play an audio file...

Yes, that's what I was referring to above as "autospawning".

Lennart

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