VLC not using PulseAudio by default
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vlc (Ubuntu) |
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Luke Yelavich | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: vlc
Was troubleshooting some performance issues with Hardy on my laptop and irrelevant story short (http://
When playing back video using VLC, my pulseaudio process remains sleeping, however other apps such as Totem and Rhythmbox make the pulseaudio process use a few % of CPU.
I manually enabled it by installing vlc-plugin-pulse and launched using
vlc --aout pulse
played back a video and then saw the expected pulseaudio process working.
After being pointed towards bug 196417 in the forums and the relating FFE at 204050 I've since discovered that the newly uploaded version of VLC should be using PulseAudio by default. The version I installed tonight is 0.8.6.release.
If my method for determining if VLC is actually using PulseAudio is naff, then abuse me and disregard this.
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Changed in vlc: | |
assignee: | nobody → themuso |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
It's normal that you had to install vlc-plugin-pulse, since that's the package that provides PulseAudio support. It may be a good idea to have vlc install the plugin by default, but it's probably too late in the cycle to do that due to risk of regressions. Still, I'm leaving this open to get the feedback of the MOTU Media team.