Re: [pygame] mixer?

["Stefan Elwesthal" <elwis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter!

That sounds like the problem, I remember changing to ESD since I didn't get any noise out of my Rythmbox :)

I'll google for polypaudio, what exactly is that? A different soundsystem or only for pygame?

Regards

Stefan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Shinners" <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pygame-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [pygame] mixer?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:07:36 -0800
> 
> Ubuntu uses the ESD sound system. SDL is probably failing to initialize
> the audio through traditional methods. Try running your program with the
> environment variable SDL_AUDIODRIVER=esd.
> 
> You'll notice ESD imposes a terrible lag on when play the sound to the
> time you actually hear something. On the newer Ubuntu 5.04 I recommend
> replacing ESD with polypaudio. It's easy to install, takes no
> configuring, and no latency. (you'll still need to set the environment
> variable to esd)
> 
> You may also have more or less luck disabling ESD or polypaudio and
> using oss/alsa directly.

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