F11 and PulseAudio

[john wendel]

On 07/19/2009 08:05 PM, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
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>> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:09:51 -0700
>> From: olivares14031 at yahoo.com
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: F11 and PulseAudio
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>> --- On Sun, 7/19/09, Markus Kesaromous  wrote:
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>>> From: Markus Kesaromous
>>> Subject: F11 and PulseAudio
>>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>> Date: Sunday, July 19, 2009, 6:32 PM
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>>> Dear All,
>>> Pulseaudio is taking as much as 35% of my cpu!!!
>>> This is a recent installation.
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>>> I could not tolerate that, so I am looking for ways to
>>> have all the audio/vdeo players work without PulseAudio.
>>>
>>> So far, no success.
>>>
>>> Are there F11 media packages built without PulseAudio?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>
>>> MM
>>>
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>> Before taking a shotgun and killing pulseaudio, try to stop it from running and see if the CPU goes back to normal?
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>> I saw on another list that killing pulseaudio and not removing it should help in some way?
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>> Hope you can see if that is true if you don't mind of course.
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>> Regards,
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>> Antonio
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> Yes you are right. Problem is that pulseaudio is always started automatically.
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> I would like to stop that from hapening.
> Also, I discovered that the media players themselves in FC11 are compiled
> to run with pulseaudio. To wit:
> yum install mplayer gnome-mplayer mplayer-gui gnome-mplayer-minimal gnome-mplayer-nautilus gnome-mplayer-common mplayer-doc
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> Setting up Install Process
> Resolving Dependencies
> -->  Running transaction check
> --->  Package gnome-mplayer.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11 set to be updated
> --->  Package gnome-mplayer-common.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11 set to be updated
> --->  Package gnome-mplayer-minimal.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11 set to be updated
> --->  Package gnome-mplayer-nautilus.i586 0:0.9.6-1.fc11 set to be updated
> --->  Package mplayer.i586 0:1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11 set to be updated
> -->  Processing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) for package: mplayer-1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11.i586
> -->  Processing Dependency: libpulse.so.0 for package: mplayer-1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11.i586
> --->  Package mplayer-doc.i586 0:1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11 set to be updated
> --->  Package mplayer-gui.i586 0:1.0-0.109.20090329svn.fc11 set to be updated
> -->  Running transaction check
> --->  Package pulseaudio-libs.i586 0:0.9.15-14.fc11 set to be updated
> -->  Finished Dependency Resolution
>
> So, how do I tell mplayer and other media players to NOT use pulseaudio?


mplayer -ao alsa ...

John