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Author: ael
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To: dng
Old-Topics: [DNG] The apulse FF solution
Subject: Re: [DNG] The apulse FF solution - but problems with mpv & mplayer
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 10:52:54AM -0500, golinux@??? wrote:
> Steve Pusser has come through once again!!
>
> See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=639579#p639579
>
> "Adding apulse 0.1.9. This will fool Firefox 52 that you have pulseaudio
> installed when you only have ALSA sound."


I just installed apulse (on a debian testing for now). Compiled from
source. It worked fine with FF. However mpv and mplayer both
misbehaved. Examining ldd, it showed that mpv, at least, was using
/usr/local/lib/libpulse-simple.so.0 for some reason. Obviously I did
*not* start mpv with apulse. So I had to remove apulse for now.

I assume the same will happen on devuan, so be warned. Or maybe that was
an artefact of the way I installed the libraries on /usr/local, but I
doubt it. I guess the package needs a tweak to fix such problems. Or
maybe it happens because debian is trying to default to pulseadio?

ael