Bug#585555: Please don't set the default audio output in /etc/mplayer/mplayer.conf

Reinhard Tartler siretart at tauware.de
Sun Jun 13 08:39:46 UTC 2010


On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 19:33:36 (CEST), Reimar Döffinger wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 12:49:41PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote:
>> Wouldn't it be a better solution to try to troubleshoot why it takes so
>> long for the pa driver to detect that PA is not installed?
>
> Indeed, particularly since I don't have that issue when I do
> killall pulseaudio
> chmod a-x /usr/bin/pulseaudio
> mplayer -ao pulse,
> I get immediate fallback to OSS without any noticeable delay.
> Actually I only get a delay when the pulseaudio "server" must be
> started.

which doesn't happen on my laptop.

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