Comments on: KDE + PulseAudio != Sucks

By: Colin

Colin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:58:55 +0000

I'm not aware of any specific issues, but in order to address any incompatibilities we need good bug reports, with solid information and backtraces of crashes (with full debug symbols) where appropriate. Open Source projects need feedback to thrive. If people don't tell us something is wrong, then as far as we're concerned nothing is broken and obviously nothing is going to be done about something that isn't broken!

By: Pazuzu

Pazuzu — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:41:28 +0000

And what about how does PulseAudio support games? Have you tried it? I suggest OpenArena, which crashed on every distro using PA I have tried

By: Mix it up « Colin.Guthr.ie

Mix it up « Colin.Guthr.ie — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:14:52 +0000

[...] on the heels of my Phonon PulseAudio integration, here is another set of patches for kdemultimedia that adds PulseAudio support to KMix [...]

By: MandrivaUser.de NEWS » KMix PulseAudio Integration

MandrivaUser.de NEWS » KMix PulseAudio Integration — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:31:27 +0000

[...] einiger Zeit beschäftigt er sich dabei sehr erfolgreich mit der Integration von PulseAudio in KDE. Ein weiteren wichtigen Schritt hat er nun im Cooker zum Testen freigegeben. Der Lautstärke-Mixer [...]

By: So how does the KDE PulseAudio support work anyway? « Colin.Guthr.ie

So how does the KDE PulseAudio support work anyway? « Colin.Guthr.ie — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:57:55 +0000

[...] follows on from my previous articles here and here. If you’ve not read them, then it would make sense to give them a quick [...]

By: ano

ano — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:55:25 +0000

Thanks for all your work! PulseAudio is a real improvement for Linux audio. I use Mandriva cooker with KDE4 and VirtualBox3. I’m glad that VirtualBox can use PulseAudio. But there is a problem when I star Windows through VirtualBox and I’ve sound through Windows, then the sound in Amarok doesn’t work (when I start amarok after the virtualbox session), sound in flash on firefox still works, I think this is strange and annoying. Maybe you can look into this?

By: KDS

KDS — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 22:53:42 +0000

This is great! thanks very much for your work!

KDE needs to work with PA better and you are making this happen!

By: Colin

Colin — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:19:54 +0000

Thanks dude With regards to the Skype support, I’ve been working with the Skype developers to improve their support. The next beta will contain some bugfixes I helped to fix and better tagging of the audio streams so that the routing works even better. Currently I’m able to answer a skype call, flip open my bluetooth headset and have the input and output streams automatically jump across to that device automatically. Things are definitely getting better :p

By: Dr.Who

Dr.Who — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:07:52 +0000

I’d like to thank you Colin for your hard work. Whilst PulseAudio has had it’s ups and downs in it’s short life, it is considerably better than ALSA, at least you can easily route certain sounds to certain sound cards (PCI or USB), and no longer limited to all sounds coming out of one device (short of voodoo coding). Oh, and unlike ALSA, you don’t have to hand edit config files to get a new sound device to work (those were the days).

I’m pleased that FINALLY Skype got their finger out of their backside to support Pulse Audio, but it’s not perfect yet.

By: Kevin Kofler

Kevin Kofler — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:45:59 +0000

KMIx’s PulseAudio support doesn’t work yet, at least in 4.3. Most of the functions are dummy or commented out.