Bug#643791: pulseaudio: Breaks mplayer sound output on second sound device

Christian Ohm chr.ohm at gmx.net
Sat Oct 1 18:20:36 UTC 2011


On Saturday,  1 October 2011 at 20:10, Christian Ohm wrote:
> On Saturday,  1 October 2011 at 11:39, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > A solution for you should be to use device=plughw:1 to play back on your
> > second device.
> 
> Unfortunately that fails with
> 
> [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM plugwh:1
> [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
> Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=plugwh=1'
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> Audio: no sound

Reverting to 0.9.23, the plughw device doesn't even work there, while
default does.





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