Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
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> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com
> <mailto:rdalek1967@×××××.com>> wrote:
> >
> <SNIP>
> >
> > Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic.  I use smplayer
> to send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card.  I
> set smplayer to send the audio to the TV, instead of my puter
> speakers.  I've never used pulseaudio but with Firefox heading down
> that path, I might have to switch.  My question is, if I switched to
> pulseaudio, can I tell it that smplayer goes to TV and things like
> Firefox, Seamonkey, gnome-player and such goes to the puter speakers? 
> From what I've read, it sounds like that is pretty much what it does. 
> Right now, I'm using ALSA, Kmix and friends.
> >
> Short answer - yes, I believe so.
>
> Long answer - I don't know how much pulseaudio will remember settings
> from session to session. If you emerge pavucontrol (kubuntu installs
> it by default, it appears Gentoo requires you to add it. On my system
> it's pavucontrol-qt) you should see something akin to this, assuming
> this link survives email
>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B_Rgaomiru0DNmuTFUwZy-9q5p4SGo_L
>
> Each app has a section, each section can be routed where you please.
> Each section has a horizontal VU meter so you can see where audio is
> coming from. 
>
> If you use pulseaudio then it owns the Alsa stack. You no longer
> communicate with Alsa using the old apps. In the general case I
> believe that alsamixer continues to work but I wouldn't bet on that
> for all systems and all soundcards. 
>
> HTH,
> Mark


That makes some sense.  I did a pretend with the USE flag enabled on the
command line just to see what all it would re-emerge and pull in as
deps.  The package you mentioned is pulled in so that should had some
function.


[ebuild  N     ] media-sound/pavucontrol-qt-0.14.1


I notice KDE pulls in a new package or two as well that are some sort of
control functions.  Of course, it rebuilds several packages with the
flag change as well. 

I may give that a try.  When I first heard of it, it was pretty buggy
since it was fairly new.  It seems that those bugs were stomped on and
from more recent info, it is pretty stable and works well. 

Thanks for the info.  Helps me to decide whether to dive in or to stay
out of the water.  lol 

Dale

:-)  :-)