Hi: I just installed 2008.0. I also installed mplayer/mplayerplug-in. Now, when I go to pgatour.com and try to play a video, it plays fine the first time. But, it fails to play the second time. The only cure is to "# killall pulseaudio", and then it plays the video again. Anyone can comment on this.
NOTE: earlier versions of Mandriva never had this problem.
Many thanks,
serge.


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Do you mean 2008.1 alpha?
Version 2008.0 does not use PulseAudio as its audio server.
If it is so, then please notice the "alpha" tag...

Sorry,sorry,sorry, YES, I first installed 2008.0, and then "upgraded" it to the latest cooker (Alpha) last night.

PulseAudio looks very promising, but it (still) has some issues even in stable releases (like the latest Fedora Core). I do like the idea of having Pulse in Mandriva, but IMHO you shouldn't expect everything working in Cooker, especially if something (like Pulse here) is just recently introduced.

Thanks scarecrow ! I'm in complete agreement. I will be re-installing 2008.0 this evening.
Best regards,
serge.

not having seen it yet what does pulse audio have that amarok fdoesnt>?

is there a website i can read up on it?

j

pulseaudio.org maybe?

Excluding the insignificant fact the former being an audio server, and the latter a media client, they are identical...
Off the record: I love Amarok, but it has two big cons: 1. tagging only via the unreliable MusicBrainz, and 2 (a big stopper for me) being unable to utilize jack-audio-server as backend.