pulseaudio deeply unreliable (Fedora 10)

[Tom Horsley]

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:04:46 -0500
Richard Shaw wrote:

> If you list
> which specific applications you're having trouble with then there is
> probably someone on the list that can help you.

I don't have any trouble after removing pulseaudio

Without removing pulseaudio I could never get mplayer to do the
passthrough at all. This script plays DVDs just fine with
audio going out to SP/DIF:

amixer set IEC958 unmute
amixer set 'IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA' 0
amixer set 'IEC958 Playback Source' PCM
exec mplayer dvd://1 -alang en -ao alsa:device=hw=0.0 -ac hwdts,hwac3, -monitoraspect 16:9 -fs

Then pulseaudio came along, and nothing I tried would get this
script to work again until I tried "yum erase pulseaudio" :-).