Comment 19 for bug 607474

First of all, type 'ps aux | grep pulseaudio' to verify whether you use
Pulseaudio or GStreamer. If you use Pulseaudio and used GStreamer before,
it's probably good to clear your config, remove xfce4-volumed and install
xfce4-volumed-pulse instead (courtesy of Lionel Le Folgoc). Be careful that
xvd picks up the first sound card it finds when it runs, so if xvd ends up
controlling the sound of your TV, kettle, cat, or something else than your
"primary" speakers, then you'll have to go into the xfconf settings of xvd
(using xfce4-settings-editor for instance) and modify the settings to use
another card.

Which brings us to checking your audio cards:
http://www.linuxnix.com/2013/06/find-sound-card-details-in-linuxunix.htmlwill
give you some commands to identify your sound card, then you can try
to google it and see if it's one of those cards that are known to be
misfunctioning on default installs of GStreamer on your distro (happened a
lot back in the day when I wrote xvd). Generally speaking if you're using
GStreamer then it's a good idea to find out what card you have, and go
through GStreamer's bugzilla in search for information on potential memory
leaks or issues.

As a gentle reminder, xfce4-volumed is no longer supported. It might be
time to switch to Pulseaudio and use xfce4-volumed-pulse instead :)

2014-04-30 10:47 GMT+01:00 Julian Gilbey <email address hidden>:

> How do I determine which backend is being used? I am also suffering
> from the same problem.
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