> I understand that, but it was pointed out that alsa could not do that "out of
> the box", and pulse audio could. And you have said that you wanted to use
> software that does stuff that others cannot.
Maybe I made a mistake in reading the order of the messages. Until the
last Mr. Clemens's messa
> IIRC "ac_add_options --enable-alsa" was dropped for Arch's Firefox 52.0,
> but IIRC then the repositories provided the builds with enable-alsa
> again, but IIRC with Firefox 54 upstream dropped alsa completely.
I wasn't really married to firefox to begin with, so dropping it wasn't
really an iss
> I thought this whole thread was about stuff that PA could do and alsa on its
> own could not.
Well, that'd be my mistake I guess. I should've been clearer and specify
in my opening post that I'd like to solve this using just alsa.
I assumed that this would be implied, given that I am asking for
> >Aside this switching issue, and few stubborn applications (hello there,
> >firefox), I really fail to see the reason to use PA on top of alsa.
>
> Off-topic:
>
> For Firefox consider to use https://github.com/i-rinat/apulse .
Well, truth to be told, it *is* possible to build firefox with alsa
> What is so bad about PA that an ALSA plugin would do better?
I wouldn't know, really, if there is anything bad to begin with?
Last two opinions that I read on the subject were that PA used to be bad
in the beginning but its great now, and that in general is not necessary
on the system at all sin
> There is no plugin that can do this dynamically, except "pulse".
That's a bit unfortunate, as I've put a lot of effort to learn enough
about alsa so that I can be able to remove PA from my system.
I don't mind writing some code; do you think it'd be feasible to write a
plugin to accomplish such
Hi everyone,
I've been trying to (unsuccessfully) solve this issue for about two
days now so I feel I've done mandatory rtfm and I do need some help.
My general problem is: I'd like to be able to switch device that
plays audio, while the audio stream is working - without playe
