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

[Nasa]

----- "Lennart Poettering" <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:

> 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.
Yes,

Maybe I didn't quite explain it right...  If I login into a terminal and
do a pulseaudio --start, then a "mplayer *mp3" I will get the song playing..
If I then do a startx and from the frontend open up a new terminal and then
do a "mplayer *mp3" I will get connection refused errors.  "whoami" in both 
terminals will return the same user.

So call me confused...

Nasa


> 
> > 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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