On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 11:40:51AM +0100, ael wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 01:22:52AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote:
> > Dear Devuaners,
> >
> > just to let you know that a .deb package for apulse is now available
> > in experimental (except for armel: I am working on that). Just add the
> > repo:
> >
> > deb http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/ experimental main
>
> Good, but has anything been done to make it compatible with mpv,
> mplayer (etc)? They seem to dynamically link to libpulse-simple.so
> which results in a disasterous degradation in performance rendering them
> pretty much useless.
>
> I am not sure how or why these programs are selecting libpulse-simple.so
> .
>
> As of now, installing apulse breaks these programs.
>


Hi ael,

have you tried the package mentioned above? This version of apulse
installs everything in its own folder, and will not shadow
libpulse-stuff if it is installed already. In order to actually use
apulse you need to wrap your program with "apulse
<your_player>".

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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