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

[Bálint Réczey]

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>:
>> > 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.
I will enable PulseAudio again in Beta 2 upload next week.

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

Cheers,
Balint

>
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> Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd at debian.org>