Packaging should Recommends: libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

[Pierre-Antoine Champin]

1) OS : ubuntu jaunty (9.04)
2) openshot: v0.9.43

the default alsa device in Jaunty is of type "pulse", and it does not seem to work with openshot : the sound is choppy then finally stops, freezing openshot.

To work around that bug, I have to edit ~/.asoundrc to set another device as default.

It is a shame that openshot does not work with pulse audio, which is the default for jaunty.

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

OpenShot uses SDL to output both video and sound. Let's try this, see if you have this package installed. If not, install it and see if this improves the stability any. Good luck!

Package Name
libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio

[Pierre-Antoine Champin (pchampin)]

Works perefectly, thanks a lot.

I suggest that you add libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio to the dependancies of openshot in the ubuntu packages, as Ubuntu uses pulse audio by default (or at least as 'recommends')... This would provide a smoother user experience for those not used to struggle with various competing sound systems :)

Keep on the great work, OpenShot looks great.

[Psy[H[] (vovik-wfa)]

Could it be:
depends: libsdl1.2debian-alsa | libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio
?
So people who do not use pulseaudio could use Openshot too?

[Pierre-Antoine Champin (pchampin)]

Makes sense, although I guess the order should rather be

depends: libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio | libsdl1.2debian-alsa

or I'm affraid some people may end-up with alsa when what they really need is pulse (think of non-technical users, who stick to the default pulseaudio and do not even know what "pulse" or "alsa" mean).