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? -- Regards, Mick
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