Comment 6 for bug 321028

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André Pirard (a.pirard) wrote : Re: 8.10 - avidemux - trouble initializing audio device

ALSA _does_ work for Avidemux 2.4.3 on Ubuntu 8.10.
But the problem is that Avidemux/Edit/Preferences/Audio/ALSA device is set to "dmix" by default.
Setting it to "default" solves the "trouble initializing" etc... problems.

dmix is an ALSA plugin.
Should it always be enabled and Avidemux is not to blame?
Or should Avidemux not assume dmix is enabled and use the system's default?
Or should it try to use dmix and revert to "default", with or without user's consent?
I don't know,.
But if it took 3 months for launchpad to determine this, I know that the general user is even more clueless and I would certainly call that a bug.
I don't know where, I leave that up to the integrator, but that's somewhere.