[alsa-devel] Audio on Linux is a mess

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday 17 of October 2008 15:24:20 Fred . wrote:
> ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Timeout
> ALSA lib pulse.c:272:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Timeout
> AL lib: alsa.c:344: Could not open playback device 'default': Connection
> refused AL lib: oss.c:179: Could not open /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy
> File
> "/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/pyglet/media/drivers/openal/__init__.py"
>, line 340, in driver_init_device = alc.alcOpenDevice(device_name)
>
> Audio on Linux is a mess.
> I launch an Python script that uses audio then it breaks, and when the
> Python script is closed, I still hear the audio skipping and repeating
> like,
> "kakakakakakaka" in infinite loop.
> And PulseAudio seems to be frozen.
> Then I kill PulseAudio and finally the audio noise stops.
>
> Oh, and I heard OpenAL downsamples stereo to mono on Linux due to a bug.
>
> Whole audio on Linux is just a big mess.

Please behave yourself.
Is there any way we can help you (which I doubt, but ...)?
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