From: "Claudio Roberto França Pereira" <spideybr@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: Tue, 6 Dec 2011 22:16:31 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGo3WeqfCv7tVriBhCdLw5N8MYYxLf7VQoqEWXkOwhgv9N8rxQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jbm6lp$a4e$1@dough.gmane.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-07 0:19 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 [this message]
2011-12-07 22:37 ` Mick
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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