[Pkg-xbmc-maintainers] Bug#741531: Please enable pulseaudio support

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Thu, 2014-03-13 at 22:17 +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> severity 741531 wishlist
> thanks
> 
> 2014-03-13 15:18 GMT+01:00 Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at debian.org>:
> > Package: xbmc
> > Version: 2:13.0~beta1+dfsg1-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Starting with Gotham xbmc finaly has proper pulseaudio support. I've just
> > tested this (rebuild the package) and things seems to work nicely including
> > passthrough support.
> >
> > Would be nice to have this in the debian pacakge
> Since I disabled PulseAudio due to the missing passthrough support [1]
> and upstream also enabled it in their Ubuntu packages [2] I'm open to
> re-enabling it.

The passthrough issue has been fixed since Gotham though as it can now
properly speak pulse. I didn't check the details of the xbmc code, but
ofcourse it would be nice if it could use pulseaudio when pulseaudio is
running and otherwise fall back to ALSA.

If you use XBMC in a standalone HTPC setup, pulseaudio does not really
add much so using just alsa there is fine.. When your box also runs a
desktop environment, typically it will run pulseaudio so the pulseaudio
sink is quite helpful there.

> However I'm a bit uncomfortable with the change due to the (IMO) high number
> of unclassified bugs in PulseAudio [3]. Maybe submitting an RFH would
> make PulseAudio package gain some more attention?

I've done that ages ago, yielded exactly no help, people tend to prefer
complaining and ranting about pulseaudio instead of triaging bugs.
Ofcourse feel free to help out, there is quite a bit of bug triaging to
be done which i have little time for :)

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Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at debian.org>