From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 22:37:30 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112072237.42741.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGo3WeqfCv7tVriBhCdLw5N8MYYxLf7VQoqEWXkOwhgv9N8rxQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011 00:16:31 Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote:
> The idea behind pulseaudio is live switching of streams. ALSA is great
> if you have only one audio card, but as soon as you introduce a
> bluetooth headset, a headphone, a HDMI display with sound output, ALSA
> can't handle real time stream redirection. Sure, you can use scripts
> to toggle .asoundrc profiles, but even then you'll need to restart the
> softwares that produce audio.
> Here I have a HDMI display (an hdtv) and a headphone. I mostly send my
> audio to my tv, but if I'm using the computer late at night, or if I'm
> to listen to high volume music, I'd switch the affecting streams to my
> headphone, without the need to mess with sound configuration files and
> to restart my sound engine.
>
> PulseAudio is to audio what X.org is to video: stream mixing software.
I see ... so for many use cases that do not require to selectively modify the
volume of different outputs, pulseaudio is really not necessary at all (I can
always plug/unplug an earphone jack or what not). That would not make
pulseaudio the default selection IMHO, but anyway - isn't that what jack is
used for? Is pulseaudio another jack application?
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-04 21:41 [gentoo-user] no sound on upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 - using pulse audio Francisco Ares
2011-12-05 15:57 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-05 16:35 ` frares
2011-12-05 17:34 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-06 23:00 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-12-07 0:16 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-07 22:37 ` Mick [this message]
2011-12-07 22:59 ` Francisco Ares
2011-12-07 23:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-07 4:12 ` Francisco Ares
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