Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Question about Pulseaudio hardware abstraction

2020-04-29 Thread Georg Chini
On 29.04.20 10:57, Jim Kent wrote: I have a question about how Pulseaudio functions between sound hardware and applications in Linux and spins. I noticed both Firefox and Chromium internally report many hardware details, including the sound output chipset and connected Bluetooth devices (with

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Question about Pulseaudio hardware abstraction

2020-04-29 Thread Pali Rohár
On Wednesday 29 April 2020 01:57:14 Jim Kent wrote: > Is it possible to sandbox applications from the > sound hardware so that they only communicate and have a view of Pulseaudio, > rather than the underlying hardware? Yes, you need to disallow access to /dev/snd/... devices for your application.

[pulseaudio-discuss] Question about Pulseaudio hardware abstraction

2020-04-29 Thread Jim Kent
I have a question about how Pulseaudio functions between sound hardware and applications in Linux and spins. I noticed both Firefox and Chromium internally report many hardware details, including the sound output chipset and connected Bluetooth devices (with unique identifiers). I assumed that Pul