Hi Sjoerd, 2014-03-14 17:57 GMT-01:00 Sjoerd Simons <sjo...@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 <sjo...@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 > > -- > Sjoerd Simons <sjo...@debian.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
