Description of problem:
reporting of upstream bugs require crippled installation of audacity.

non-free components should be, as-is with mplayer and vlc, some form of pluggable component or library.

THEN upstream bugs can properly be reported. non-free bugs can be sent to appropriate teams, ie: fraunhoffer staff or other staff.

misnomer:
ffmpeg itself and even mplayer for that matter are not non-free by default. The pluggable components of these apps ARE. DVD decryption, mp3 support, etc. etc. are  ADD-ONS. They DO NOT and SHOULD NOT ship by DEFAULT. These should be extra package installations.RPMFusion can more than handle the add-ons. They should NOT be forced to REWRITE the offending application to offer non-free functionality.

This is partly why the repos are jack screwed on mplayer-esque applications.Both mplayer and vlc are plugin based.Im pretty sure ffmpeg is as well.

If debian can get it right, we should be able to.

We should not be forced into reporting application bugs to non-free teams.They CANNOT fix application bugs.The problem is UPSTREAM in the application level code.And maintaining multiple versions is pointless waste.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
22

How reproducible:
on record

Steps to Reproduce:

CASE IN POINT(the real underlying BUG):
pavucontrol is open awaiting application status for loopback recording.
alsa is selected and pulse for recording from an oss source(another app)


Actual results:
AUDACITY CRASHES on record attempt.
[wait on input audio threshold is selected]

prior to this, oss application hogs the inputs and hardware 0,0 is not available to record from.

Expected results:
I should be able to see "record from monitor" in pavucontrol and be able to record a loopback audio file.

Additional info:
forced to use crippled audacity to report bug. freeworld from rpmfusion (with mp3, ffmpeg support) cannot report the bug, even though it is application level and NOT plugin related.