Amarok and Pulseaudio

JD jd1008 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 10:12:21 UTC 2012


On 11/01/2012 01:28 AM, � wrote:
> On Donnerstag, 1. November 2012 02:52:39 CEST, JD wrote:
>
>> Saw that Pulseaudio was eating 90% of cpu.
> yeah, "surprise"...
>
>> This never happens with any other media player such as vlc, ffplay,
>> mplayer, xmms, smplayer2, ... and many others.
> most important information for amarok devs is missing here:
> Amarok uses phonon which uses <something> which uses pulseaudio.
> If the <something> is the "just works" (...) gstreamer, try using phonon-vlc instead (since eg. gst123 was not in your list of working clients)
>
> Thomas
>
OK, so I just installed phonon-backend-vlc.
How do I tell amarok to use it instead of
gstreamer?
Do I have to recompile amarok and change the
configuration options,or what?




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