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Michael wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:33:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> <SNIP> |
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>>> Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic. I use smplayer to |
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>> send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card. I set |
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>> smplayer to send the audio to the TV, instead of my puter speakers. I've |
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>> never used pulseaudio but with Firefox heading down that path, I might have |
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>> to switch. My question is, if I switched to pulseaudio, can I tell it that |
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>> smplayer goes to TV and things like Firefox, Seamonkey, gnome-player and |
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>> such goes to the puter speakers? From what I've read, it sounds like that |
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>> is pretty much what it does. Right now, I'm using ALSA, Kmix and friends. |
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>> Short answer - yes, I believe so. |
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>> Long answer - I don't know how much pulseaudio will remember settings from |
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>> session to session. If you emerge pavucontrol (kubuntu installs it by |
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>> default, it appears Gentoo requires you to add it. On my system it's |
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>> pavucontrol-qt) you should see something akin to this, assuming this link |
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>> survives email |
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>> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B_Rgaomiru0DNmuTFUwZy-9q5p4SGo_L |
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>> Each app has a section, each section can be routed where you please. Each |
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>> section has a horizontal VU meter so you can see where audio is coming |
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>> from. |
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>> If you use pulseaudio then it owns the Alsa stack. You no longer |
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>> communicate with Alsa using the old apps. In the general case I believe |
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>> that alsamixer continues to work but I wouldn't bet on that for all systems |
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>> and all soundcards. |
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>> HTH, |
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>> Mark |
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> Kmix displays both in different tabs. Of course it makes sense to use a tool |
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> you decided to install (e.g. pulseaudio) rather than trying to fight against |
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> it with alsamixer over control of the audio. |
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I was even thinking if I could disable things like Kmix and such to make |
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it simple. I remember years ago when everything was muted by default. |
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After a fresh install, you would have to go to each audio program and |
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unmute in order to get sound. Miss even one, no sound. Having just one |
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seems to be more simple. |
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Waiting on some downloads to finish before I can do anything. May have |
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to logout and back in again anyway, That silly sddm thingy is still |
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hoggin up a lot of memory. I have to reset about every day to clear |
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that up. Where's my hammer?? :/ |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) :-) |
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