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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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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