Bug#586761: sun-java6-plugin: Please add PulseAudio support!

[Garrett McLean]

Package: sun-java6-plugin
Version: 6.20-dlj-4
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

If I run jars with padsp java -jar <jar>, sound works great. If I just run java
-jar <jar>, the sound gets lost in what has become known as the terrifying
jungle of Linux audio (http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2007/05/) and never
makes it to my speakers.

It'd be great if somehow all java programs -- but in particular applets since
they are trickier to run through padsp -- could somehow check for PulseAudio
and, if it's present, run the applet through padsp (or maybe an even better
solution than this!). Probably a simple bash script would suffice.

Thanks for all your hard work!

-Garrett



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sun-java6-plugin depends on:
ii  iceweasel                     3.5.9-3    Web browser based on Firefox
ii  libasound2                    1.0.23-1   shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.3.3-3  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.1.1-3  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                        2:1.3-4    X11 Input extension library
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.7-1  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  libxtst6                      2:1.1.0-2  X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  sun-java6-bin                 6.20-dlj-4 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (

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