On Sun, 7 Dec 2008 20:57:09 +0100 Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-07 12:23:53 +0000, Jim Higson <jh@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > I don't have a landline so I talk a lot on Skype using my USB headset. This > > is great, but sometimes I want to put it on speaker, like when I'm on hold > > at my bank for a long time. > > So the basic point is that you'd like to have a switching matrix > between physical inputs/outputs and logical streams. > > I have a similar setup (a number of sound cards, plus I want to feed a > RTP stream to the network), which I use with Pulseaudio. So Pulseaudio > is the switching matrix, using ALSA for low-level device access. This > works quite nice, allowing eg. volume control per virtual channel, > interruption-free (and transparent for the application) move from one > sound input/output device to another, ... > > MfG, JBG > I haven't used Pulseaudio; I think one will have to create a pseudo ALSA device in Pulseaudio and point Skype to it. Regards, Sergei. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
