[sldev] gstreamer

[Glen Canaday]

What to do for video, then?

--GC

(sry for the dupe Jan, I meant to send to the list only)

On Thursday 12 March 2009 5:03:36 pm Jan Ciger wrote:
> Sean Linden wrote:
> > I wish I had the time to attempt to do a build - I have the same problem
> > - the viewer crashes immediately if I try to enable streaming. Voice
> > works, but not using pulseaudio. I have to kill pulseaudio before
> > starting SL, and if I don't need to use voice and I leave pulseaudio
> > running, the viewer will frequently hang or cause other audio apps to
> > hang, resulting in my needing to restart pulseaudio after quitting the
> > viewer.
>
> This issue with voice and pulseaudio is present in the 32bit build as
> well. For me, if I enable voice, the pulse server crashes after a short
> time resulting in an incredible racket (looping sample). Restarting
> pulse cures it, but then the client will lose sound until I restart it
> too. So voice is completely unusable on machines that are using
> pulseaudio right now. BTW, most modern distros are changing over to
> pulseaudio, so it would help to actually support it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jan