> 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
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, John Z. wrote:
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
> 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
On Sun, 22 Oct 2017, John Z. wrote:
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
> 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
John Z. wrote:
>> 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.
What is so bad about PA that an ALSA plugin would do better?
> I don't mind
> 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
John Z. wrote:
> My general problem is: I'd like to be able to switch device that
> plays audio, while the audio stream is working - without player
> application knowing anything happened.
PulseAudio can do this.
> My current asoundrc can switch the card through environmental
>
