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Install All Utilities

Install meta-pkgs/pulseaudio-tools.

Setup

Pre-requisites

pulseaudio needs dbus to run. So if it's not running already:

cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/rc.d/dbus /etc/rc.d
echo dbus=YES >> /etc/rc.conf

Third Party Applications

ALSA Applications

Ignore on NetBSD?

Amarok (audio/amarok)

Install audio/xine-pulse, select Xine engine and 'pulseaudio' backend.

Audacious (audio/audacious)

Not tested.

Audacity (audio/audacity)

'padsp' method works. 'pasuspender' crashes the daemon on resume (will be fixed in 0.9.15)

ESOUND Applications

Create symlink manually:

 mkdir -p /tmp/.esd && ln -s /tmp/.esd-${UID} /tmp/.esd/sound

Flash Player (multimedia/ns-flash)

Install multimedia/libflashsupport-pulse on i386 and amd64. Flash 7 on sparc not tested.

GNOME

Works via GStreamer.

GStreamer Applications

Install audio/gst-plugins0.10-pulse.

iaxComm

Not in pkgsrc.

KDE

pulseaudio crashes in protocol-esound.c:do_work(). Probably the same bug as pa#463.

libao Applications

Install audio/libao-pulse.

MPD (audio/musicpd)

Compile musicpd with the default-off pulseaudio option enabled.

Configure a matching audio_output section in mpd.conf:

audio_output {
    type            "pulse"
    name            "Pulseaudio"
}

MPlayer (multimedia/mplayer)

pulseaudio support added in 1.0rc10nb12 and works.

$ mplayer -ao pulse myvideo.avi

or add the line

ao=pulse

to .mplayer/config.

If you have audio/video sync problems, you can modify the sync with the plus ('+') and minus ('-') keys.

MPlayer plug-in (multimedia/mplayer-plugin-*)

Not tested, but should work as described.

MythTV (wip/mythtv)

WIP package is obsolete and does not build on NetBSD.

OpenAL Applications

Not tested, but should work as described.

OSS Applications

'padsp' works.

SDL (devel/SDL)

1.2.12 in pkgsrc. Works fine.

Skype (net/skype)

Not tested.

Teeworlds

Not in pkgsrc.

TiMidity++ (audio/timidity)

Works via libao -- install timidity-2.13.2nb10 and libao-pulse.

Totem (multimedia/totem)

Works via GStreamer.

VideoLAN (multimedia/vlc)

0.9.8a in pkgsrc, pulseaudio supported. Not tested, but should work as described.

wavbreaker

Not in pkgsrc.

WINE (emulators/wine)

Not tested.

Xine

Install audio/xine-pulse.

XMMS

xmms-pulse not in pkgsrc; xmms-esound works, but can crash pulseaudio.