F11 and PulseAudio

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Jul 20 06:06:25 UTC 2009


> > Before taking a shotgun and killing pulseaudio, try to
> stop it from running and see if the CPU goes back to
> normal?
> >
> > I saw on another list that killing pulseaudio and not
> removing it should help in some way?
> >
> > Hope you can see if that is true if you don't mind of
> course.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Antonio
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --

> Yes you are right. Problem is that pulseaudio is always
> started automatically.
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> _________________________________________________________________

Two or more ways

1) 
$ pulseaudio -k 
from man
 -k  --kill                            Kill a running daemon

2) in ~/.mplayer/config

add a line
ao = alsa

3) or from command line switch 

$ mplayer options -ao alsa

directly use alsa instead of ao=pulse

I have noticed that if I install mplayer via rpmfusion or other repo, it(mplayer) uses pulse by default, but if I compile from source it uses the 
best -ao option available.  Just an observation.

Hope this helps in some way.  

Regards,

Antonio


      




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