On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.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
