John Baptist wrote >
"Are there any potential negative consequences to removing this package?"
Certainly there are -
the one clear consequence is that if you have a 5.1 setup and are using pulseaudio that while you will get 6 channel output the 5.1 channel mapping will be incorrect in gstreamer players
If you are not using 5.1 and experiencing pulse crashing with other formats this may resolve with no real consequence
The real purpose of removing the plugin in this bug report is to test and possibly point to the most likely culprit - the gstreamer pulseaudio plugin (gst-plugins-good ) and see if it resolves the issue for file types other than .ac3
John Baptist wrote >
"That is, is someone from gstreamer and/or PA willing to take responsibility for this"
Apparently not - the bug I posted against gst-plugins-good, linked in post # 37 has been ignored - if removing the plugin resolves for ac3 5.1 in a 5.1 setup then marking "..affects me.." would be good
(though it is specific to 5.1 output and .ac3 files
John Baptist wrote >
"Are there any potential negative consequences to removing this package?"
Certainly there are -
the one clear consequence is that if you have a 5.1 setup and are using pulseaudio that while you will get 6 channel output the 5.1 channel mapping will be incorrect in gstreamer players
There are numerous 5.1 ac3 test files available - here's one www.lynnemusic. com/surround. html
http://
or just www.lynnepublis hing.com/ surround/ www_lynnemusic_ com_surround_ test.ac3
wget http://
If you are not using 5.1 and experiencing pulse crashing with other formats this may resolve with no real consequence
The real purpose of removing the plugin in this bug report is to test and possibly point to the most likely culprit - the gstreamer pulseaudio plugin (gst-plugins-good ) and see if it resolves the issue for file types other than .ac3
John Baptist wrote >
"That is, is someone from gstreamer and/or PA willing to take responsibility for this"
Apparently not - the bug I posted against gst-plugins-good, linked in post # 37 has been ignored - if removing the plugin resolves for ac3 5.1 in a 5.1 setup then marking "..affects me.." would be good
(though it is specific to 5.1 output and .ac3 files