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On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 8:34 PM Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:09 PM Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Since you use pulseaudio (per your latest post): can you send the |
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> > contents of a wav file to an external DAC via toslink, without |
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> > pulseaudio messing with the file? (Most people don't seem to care |
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> > whether the signal is first converted to analog, and resampled, and |
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> > converted to digital, and whatnot, before leaving the computer...) |
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> I'll investigate what I can do sending files by hand. However on the USB only machine all the internal sound card hardware is blacklisted so modules aren't loaded. I don't know that I want to upset the environment on that machine very much but a bit more about this at the bottom of this post. |
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No, please don't bother. I only mentioned because I thought you might |
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know it out of hand. I'll search documentation about pulseaudio, if I |
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can find it. It occurred to me that it would be an acceptable setup if |
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pulseaudio could be coaxed into managing just the USB card (as hw |
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card, not as virtual card) and leave the HD audio alone. I would use |
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the USB to voice chat and the MB card to everything else. (I would |
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have to buy another pair of headphones, but maybe headphones for |
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speech-only would not add too much clutter to the desk...) |
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> and running on your system. You probably don't have the qt version on a non-KDE system I suspect. |
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I don't have pulseaudio installed, I'm quite sure. I have qt, because |
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some applications use it. |
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> I am tending to trust this link for a description of pulseaudio's purpose. |
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> https://superuser.com/questions/144648/how-do-alsa-and-pulseaudio-relate |
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Will check it. |
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> Anyway, last thing for now would be that I'm still willing and slightly interested in looking at discord/zoom/whatever for my own needs. If I make some headway, or if you want to collaborate in that area let me know, either through gentoo-user of privately. |
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If you need a voice chat to talk with your friends/co-workers/etc, |
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maybe mumble would be a good choice. It's the only one that recognized |
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my hw and allowed to calibrate the micro. It also allows to choose the |
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sound source by hand, if needed (contrary to all the others). And it |
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is open source. (But it would require that one of you setup a server, |
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or else use a paying server.) |
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Cheers |
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Jorge |
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