default sound device with kde phonon/gstreamer-backend

[jarmo]

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 20:07:19 +0000
Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> kirjoitti:

> Does anyone have suggestions about this? Maybe I'm missing something
> very obvious. I'm using a system which has a HDMI sound (by virtue of
> a new graphics card) and a dedicated sound card (which is what I want
> to use). Trying out KDE I've found that applications like amarok want
> to output to the HDMI output. I can't see any way to change this.
> KDE's multimedia configuration shows only the pulseaudio device. The
> device setup menu shows the individual devices (including also a
> webcam microphone), but doesn't appear to give any way to change the
> default or priority. Pavucontrol shows the output to HDMI and that can
> be changed on a per application basis, I can also set the fallback
> device using it (which allows KDE to play a test sound to it), but
> it's not an ideal solution and amarok seems to ignore the fallback
> device, requiring it to be explicitly changed. Not ideal. How can the
> priorities be set properly for KDE/Phonon/Gstreamer back-end?
> 

I have two sound cards and I have disabled pulseaudio, to get them
working my way. Example one for listening music and one for Skype.

Pulseaudio is crab.

Jarmo