PulseAudio in-/output device confusion
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Thu Oct 15 23:14:46 UTC 2009
Petrus de Calguarium wrote:
> Is this the optimal ordering for PulseAudio for each of
> in-/output?
It's OK for output. You can ignore input at this time, Phonon doesn't really
support capturing yet.
> And why does output have both PulseAudio
> and PulseAudio Sound Server (is one a vestigial
> rudiment of an earlier release)?
The "PulseAudio Sound Server" entry is the ALSA pulse device. The entry
called just "PulseAudio" is native PulseAudio (so it's preferred).
A future release of Phonon will no longer show all those ALSA devices when
PulseAudio is in use, but instead offer a list of devices which can be
accessed through PulseAudio. But this is work in progress (by Colin
Guthrie).
Kevin Kofler
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