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alsa-plugins package

  1. Bug #348353
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 348353

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Mike Rans (rans) wrote : Re: Pulse Audio no longer works with alsa a52 plugin (Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty)

I can confirm that I get the same error message with Lucid.

I have raised upstream bugs. According to Lennart, a Pulseaudio developer, the problem (10 months ago) was "Uh. This needs to posted as a bug against the a52 alsa module upstream. It shouldn't return EAGAIN on snd_pcm_commit()."
http://pulseaudio.org/ticket/655#comment:2

I don't know if this is still the problem or if it has been fixed but I have reopened the above ticket with Pulseaudio and raised a new one with the Alsa plugins project here: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=5054

Regarding the A52 plugin, this is compiled from Lucid source as by default Lucid doesn't ship with the A52 plugin. Why can't it be added as a "third party plugin" like Flash or Windows codecs?