PulseAudio in VLC

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PulseAudio in VLC

Postby MetalheadGautham » 21 Dec 2007 12:45

Does VLC fully support PulseAudio and all its features?
I have the Ubuntu feisty version of VLC, and installed the PulseAudio package for VLC. But I found no module in VLC to support PulseAudio. I also noticed that Xine is able to handle PulseAudio. How can I enable pulse audio support in VLC? If its not implemented, when will it be?
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Re: PulseAudio in VLC

Postby funman » 21 Dec 2007 14:10

VLC doesn't support PulseAudio, and it will be implemented when "someone code it" © ;)

It means when someone will be interested in PulseAudio

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Re: PulseAudio in VLC

Postby MetalheadGautham » 22 Dec 2007 11:19

aren't we all :roll:

anyway, since Red Hat decided to support PulseAudio in Fedora 8, I thought that it must have been implemented in almost all major programs by now... guess I was wrong. :?
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Re: PulseAudio in VLC

Postby kwizart » 24 Dec 2007 18:34

Pulseaudio can be used with vlc via the compat-ESoundD layer of PA...
but it seems there is a need to add something like this: (to users ~/.bashrc )
if [ ! -e /tmp/.esd-${UID} ]; then
ln -fs /tmp/.esd /tmp/.esd-${UID}
fi

Anyway a native PA interface would be desirable...

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Re: PulseAudio in VLC

Postby asdufisn » 26 Dec 2007 19:54

Hi,

Did you try installing the zeroconfig modules(sever and client) for pulseAudio? and the GUI modules for configuring pulseAudio?

* pulseAudio module zeroconf (this is the server side)
* pulseAudio libs zeroconf (this is the client side)

some more modules to download:

* pulseAudio libs
* pulseAudio gconf
* alsa plugins pulseAudio (I guess this is were the magic happens for VLC, because according to the pulseAudio homepage, if it works with ALSA it should just work)
* pulseAudio esound compat
* paprefs
* pavucontrol
* pulseAudio libs glib2
* pavumeter (I think this is the volume control and it is important because pulseAudio when configured to output more than one stream of sound overides the normal volume control e you must control it with the pulseAudio volume control instead of the normal one, I think, if I'm wrong my sincere apologies to all)
* paman
* padevchooser (this will put a nice little icon on your fedora 8 panel)


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