Thursday, September 18, 2008

Problems with audio in hardy heron: culprit pulse audio

When i have upgraded to hardy, after that I started to have audio problems. It seems that one application is locking another application from playing. Then I found out that its a problem with flash enabled sites such as youtube. When they play, they prevent other applications such as VLC from playing. So I installed libflashsupport.
#sudo apt-get install libflashsupport

which solved the problem. But then again, when I am listen to youtube, I couldnt start a voice chat in skype. Oh GOD! it turned out to be pulseaudio, the audio server they are using with hardy instead of alsa is the main problem. It is not robust yet and many programs are not comfortable with it. To get rid of all the problems, you can return to alsa and remove pulseaudio. How to remove is told in this wiki.

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