On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 01:05 -0700, Cristian Savu wrote: > I recently got a USB headset (wireless) and I thought it was going to quickly > solve the "tied up by a cable" problem. > > I thought it would be the exact equivalent of any ordinary "stereo jack" type > headset. > > But unfortunately this device can only be used for "PCM" type of audio > sources. > > It is not working - for instance - with the (onboard) soundcard's Line-In or > Microphone jacks. > > And what bothers me is that I have a tv tuner that has the audio output looped > back through the onboard Line-In jack, and of course it's not getting to my > USB headset. > > And no, I tried to play the tv tuner audio as a PCM in aplay, but it doesn't > yield anything. The only way out for the sound is through the audio out jack > on the back of the tv tuner. > > Digging with google, I managed to find a set of udev rules that can be used in > a configuration file to quickly redirect the PCM of the current mixer to a > USB headset as soon as the headset is plugged in a USB connector of the > computer. > > So my problem really boils down to one single question: > > ============================== > Is there any way to redirect other mixer inputs (like Line-In or Mic) and play > them just like ordinary PCM? > ============================== > > As far as I tried, I couldn't find anything anywhere on the net. > > > I signed up with this mailing list as a last resort in my attempt to find an > answer to this problem. So if there's any expert here willing to pull me out > of this total darkness, please have mercy and share some ideas. > > > Thank you all in advance, > > > Cristian Sounds like precisely what Pulseaudio was designed for, if you'd care to try that out. I don't doubt that its possible with alsa-only and proper udev rules, but the point of Pulseaudio is to (hopefully) make things easier to setup and maintain. Try it out. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
