Bug#413974: gstreamer-properties needs libesd-alsa0
Robert Millan [ackstorm]
rmillan at ackstorm.es
Fri Mar 9 10:14:43 CET 2007
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:37:22PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 12:06 +0100, Robert Millan [ackstorm] wrote:
> > By upstream decision, it appears that the gnome media subsystem is now
> > unusable with OSS. When using OSS, esound blocks access to /dev/dsp and
> > all write attempts there result in EBUSY.
> >
> > It seems they have provided no option in gstreamer-properties to pipe the
> > sound via esd, so the only option if you want mixing is to use ALSA.
>
> Hi,
>
> I think you need to install gstreamer0.10-esd.
Sure that's better, as long as gstreamer-properties defaults to it in the
"autodetect" option. If it tries to pick ALSA or OSS it'll just break.
You still need to add a dependency, though.
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Robert Millan
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