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Bug 1602

Summary: SDL2_mixer doesn't work without PulseAudio
Product: SDL_mixer Reporter: mbresson
Component: miscAssignee: Ryan C. Gordon <icculus>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Sam Lantinga <slouken>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
Attachments: A short program to play an OGG music

Description mbresson 2012-09-17 13:19:27 UTC 
Created attachment 949 [details]
A short program to play an OGG music

Hello,
I have compiled SDL2_mixer with ./configure --disable-pulseaudio
I know I can use SDL_mixer 1.2 without PulseAudio (I only have ALSA on my linux system).
Is PulseAudio required with SDL2_mixer?
When I try to run a simple example, I get:

"Could not setup connection to PulseAudio"

I attached the source code used to test SDL2_mixer.
Comment 1 Ryan C. Gordon 2017-05-29 15:25:26 UTC 
(Closing really old bug reports here.)

You've probably moved on since 2012, but SDL_mixer doesn't talk to PulseAudio directly; it talks to SDL, which talks to Pulse, so you'd have to disable it in SDL.

--ryan.