Re: [LMMS-devel] PulseAudio and PNGs

[Tobias D. <tob...@gm...>]

Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2007 21:20:50 schrieb Paul Wayper:
> Two more irritating questions :-)
>
> 1) Is there any plan to support PulseAudio as an output?  I'm finding that
> LMMS will randomly stop playback and go to 100% CPU time in what seems to
> be a lock waiting to get exclusive access to the sound output.  I can sti=
ll
> save and edit as normal, but I need to close LMMS and restart in order for
> it to go away.  Stopping playback does not reset this.  It also happens
> sometimes when previewing a sample or instrument preset.
>
> This mostly happens when I've paused playback in some other sound-produci=
ng
> application, but it doesn't seem to matter.  I've tried ALSA and OSS outp=
ut
> (both supported as modules of PulseAudio) but neither prevent lock-ups.=20
> The curious thing is that it doesn't happen all the time: I can often work
> for many minutes in LMMS, playing back and pausing and playing again, unt=
il
> out of the blue it decides to stop.  I'm having all sorts of pain getting
> JACK running.
Working here with ALSA without any problems - even with various programs=20
having sound opened. However I think it'd no problem to add=20
PulseAudio-support as the API looks quite simple (according to=20
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pulseaudio/doxygen/paplay_8c-example.ht=
ml).

> 2) How did you create the PNG files for the icons?  The headers are subtly
> but significantly mangled so that no image viewer application on my system
> reads them, yet they obviously show up in LMMS.  It'd save me a bit of ti=
me
> having to cut icons out of screen grabs...
huh? Most of the icons were made using GIMP and I can open them with whatev=
er=20
application I like.

toby