default sound device with kde phonon/gstreamer-backend

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/10/2012 02:16 PM, jarmo wrote:
> 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.

I have 3 sound devices.  One is a USB headset while the others are....

01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller  (HDMI)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset

I use pulseaudio with no problems.....

skype allows one to select which audio device to use for what.  So, for ringing I use the Intel device while or my "speakers" I use the USB headset.

Using pavucontrol I can "show applications" (while they are running) and the select which output device to use.

Also, under KDE System Settings....  I can go to Multimedia-->Phonon and select the order if device preference.  Intel is on top for me...

So, I have no problems with pulseaudio.  For me it is "crab".  And I like crab, especially King Crab.  :-)

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