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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