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On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011 00:16:31 Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: |
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> The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great |
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> if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a |
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> bluetooth headset, a headphone, a HDMI display with sound output, ALSA |
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> can't handle real time stream redirection. Sure, you can use scripts |
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> to toggle .asoundrc profiles, but even then you'll need to restart the |
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> softwares that produce audio. |
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> Here I have a HDMI display (an hdtv) and a headphone. I mostly send my |
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> audio to my tv, but if I'm using the computer late at night, or if I'm |
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> to listen to high volume music, I'd switch the affecting streams to my |
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> headphone, without the need to mess with sound configuration files and |
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> to restart my sound engine. |
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> |
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> PulseAudio is to audio what X.org is to video: stream mixing software. |
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I see ... so for many use cases that do not require to selectively modify the |
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volume of different outputs, pulseaudio is really not necessary at all (I can |
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always plug/unplug an earphone jack or what not). That would not make |
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pulseaudio the default selection IMHO, but anyway - isn't that what jack is |
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used for? Is pulseaudio another jack application? |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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