Bug#643791: pulseaudio: Breaks mplayer sound output on second sound device

[Josh Triplett]

On Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 08:10:18PM +0200, Christian Ohm wrote:
> On Saturday,  1 October 2011 at 11:39, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> > A solution for you should be to use device=plughw:1 to play back on your
> > second device.
> 
> Unfortunately that fails with
> 
> [AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm.c:2212:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM plugwh:1
> [AO_ALSA] Playback open error: No such file or directory
> Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=plugwh=1'
> Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
> Audio: no sound
> 
> ("device=plughw=1" is correct, since mplayer uses : to separate options)

>From the look of that error message, though, you wrote "plugwh" rather
than "plughw".

- Josh Triplett