[pulseaudio-discuss] no clue how to downsample network audio stream + some minor issues

2009-11-25 Thread vitaminx
Hello, I'm pretty new to pulseaudio and after some days of reading manuals i'm actually stuck with 3 things: - i have a media server running pulseaudio and i want to stream audio to it. works pretty well so far, but my bandwidth is quite low for the moment so i want to downsample the sound *only

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] hang when trying to drain empty stream

2009-11-25 Thread Gregory Petrosyan
On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Gregory Petrosyan wrote: > I believe there is a bug in PA: when trying to drain empty stream > (newly created, or just after pa_stream_flush()) returned pa_operation > never completes. Because it's not possible to know in advance if > a stream is empty, IMO pa_stre

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-11-25 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:48, Colin Guthrie wrote: > PA will always remember what your app has chosen. So if you play something > with an app for the very first time, it is assigned to the fallback device > (we know no better). > Is this the case even if you don't manually select one? Ie, the f

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-11-25 Thread Daniel Chen
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Vadim Peretokin wrote: > Currently with PulseAudio, every new app that I start will use the onboard > sound card. I have to manually go to pavucontrol, and change the streams to > my headset The new gnome-volume-control applet shipped in 2.28 works just fine for

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-11-25 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Definitely... now that you've explained it to me, the pavucontrol UI communicates it's message quite poorly. Thanks for the tip ___ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only "dummy audio" available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Chmielewski at 25/11/09 19:02 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie wrote: This is typically a permissions problem. Does the "pulse" user (which IIRC is used by system mode) have permissions to open the sound devices? All right, this was it! I wish pulsaudio with multi

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only "dummy audio" available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Colin Guthrie wrote: This is typically a permissions problem. Does the "pulse" user (which IIRC is used by system mode) have permissions to open the sound devices? All right, this was it! I wish pulsaudio with multiple users was more straightforward one day. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpk

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only "dummy audio" available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Tomasz Chmielewski at 25/11/09 18:27 did gyre and gimble: Colin Guthrie wrote: There should be some info kicking around about system mode PA if you google around for it. I don't have much success with getting audio for two users with pulseaudio. I start pulsaudio as root w

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-11-25 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Vadim Peretokin at 25/11/09 17:14 did gyre and gimble: It's great that /pavucontrol/ offers a fallback device option. But why doesn't it offer one for selecting which device would you like to be default? Because it doesn't :) Patches welcome. My use case: I'm on a laptop an

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] only "dummy audio" available when many users want to use one audio card

2009-11-25 Thread Tomasz Chmielewski
Colin Guthrie wrote: > There should be some info kicking around about system mode PA if you > google around for it. I don't have much success with getting audio for two users with pulseaudio. I start pulsaudio as root with these options: # pulseaudio --log-target=syslog --system -D --disallow-

[pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-11-25 Thread Vadim Peretokin
It's great that *pavucontrol* offers a fallback device option. But why doesn't it offer one for selecting which device would you like to be default? My use case: I'm on a laptop and have a wireless usb headset. I prefer that everything is played/recorded via the headset, when the headset is connec