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

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Wed, 2014-03-19 at 21:06 -0100, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> Hi Sjoerd,
> 
> 2014-03-14 17:57 GMT-01:00 Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at debian.org>:
> > 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>:
> > 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.
> I will enable PulseAudio again in Beta 2 upload next week.

That's great thank you!

> >
> >> 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 :)
> If you don't mind I would like to reopen the RFH to state that the maintenance
> team would like to solve the lack of manpower available for
> maintaining PulseAudio.

If you feel that's beneficial, please do :)

> I also plan solving few bugs, many of them seem to be trivial. Can I commit
> to the git repository?

Yes please! All help is very welcome. If you sign up for pkg-pulseaudio
on alioth i'll add you. 

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Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at debian.org>