On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 > Now I've got another problem: how to revert back to simple alsa... Thanks! Francisco -- "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." - George Bernard Shaw
