Re: pulseaudio, analog sound output, and WHAT?

2020-11-22 Thread Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss
On 2020-11-21 23:56, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote: On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:58:17 -0700 Matt Graham wrote: The firefox developers have basically said, "The microphone on your computer won't work at all unless you use pulseaudio."[0] There's a simple executable called apulse that gives pulsea

Re: pulseaudio, analog sound output, and WHAT?

2020-11-21 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020 07:58:17 -0700 Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss wrote: > The firefox developers have basically said, "The microphone on your > computer won't work at all unless you use pulseaudio."[0] I've been > trying to avoid pulseaudio for various reasons.[1] But since > Thanksgiving is

Re: pulseaudio, analog sound output, and WHAT?

2020-11-20 Thread Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss
Use of pulse virtual "monitoring" interfaces might be useful for muxing audio, and can be done in the pavucontrol ui. I used to have these crap foscam ip cameras that only worked via IE/DirectX drivel, and occasionally would entertain/torment my birds in another room with this where I had a camera

Re: pulseaudio, analog sound output, and WHAT?

2020-11-20 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
Thank you so much for that. On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 11:13 AM Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Oh joy! > > I really wish the developers had not taken this route with pulse audio. > Because of this, I have had no end of issues when trying to output screen > rea

Re: pulseaudio, analog sound output, and WHAT?

2020-11-20 Thread Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
Oh joy! I really wish the developers had not taken this route with pulse audio. Because of this, I have had no end of issues when trying to output screen reader audio to my headphones using a standard stereo audio output. My machine has SpDIF and HDMI outputs as well as analog, yet I have not b

pulseaudio, analog sound output, and WHAT?

2020-11-20 Thread Matt Graham via PLUG-discuss
The firefox developers have basically said, "The microphone on your computer won't work at all unless you use pulseaudio."[0] I've been trying to avoid pulseaudio for various reasons.[1] But since Thanksgiving is canceled this year, I'll have to see the family virtually, and why not do that w