ports/183586: [patch] vlc 2.1.0 port requires pulse, works fine with oss, too

[William Grzybowski]

The following reply was made to PR ports/183586; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: William Grzybowski <william88 at gmail.com>
To: Peter Wullinger <peter.wullinger+freebsd at googlemail.com>
Cc: William Grzybowski <wg at freebsd.org>, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/183586: [patch] vlc 2.1.0 port requires pulse, works fine
 with oss, too
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 11:46:52 -0200

 On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Peter Wullinger
 <peter.wullinger+freebsd at googlemail.com> wrote:
 >
 >>
 >> It works until it doesn't, try playing MP3 file.
 >
 > That seems to be repeatable. Playing an .mp3 causes the problem
 > to appear immediately. I also get a lot of warnings
 >
 > TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate.
 >
 > which I've never seen before. Still, other audio seems to play just fine.
 > I've been listening to half an hour of .ogg tracks now and there
 > seem to be no issues with that.
 >
 > So it's not that it does not work at all, rather some parameter
 > combinations/plugins seem to work together in a bad way.  My concern
 > simply is, that I would very much prefer not to _enforce_ pulseaudio on
 > anyone if that can be avoided.
 
 I understand, but it won't happen until OSS is completely fixed.
 
 Thanks for under understanding.
 
 
 
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 William Grzybowski
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