Comment 8 for bug 196417

Le Sat 01 Mar 08 � 23:53 -0000, Luke Yelavich a �it :
> If anybody wishes to do the leg work for filing a feature freeze
> exception, I'd certainly be happy to review it. If its also possible to
> set pulseaudio by default, and allow for a fallback to alsa, this would
> even be better, as vlc will then work with all desktops out of the box
> for hardy.
You need to patch the module to set its score higher than the one of
alsa (and esd, arts, oss). VLC core tries the modules in decreasing
score order until it finds one which works.

So with pulse with a big score, it will be tried first and then the
other audio module

hth,

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