I've put PulseAudio into [testing] some time ago, but received no
feedback on this.
This either means it works well, or nobody uses it.
So I'm asking for it now, especially from GNOME and KDE users running
PulseAudio.
I tested it a while on KDE and as expected it has downsides compared to
using plain alsa. :-) I lost all controls in kmix except of only one
volume control.
The benefit is that Flash will not f**k and lock your sound card.
But Smplayer is a way better and didn't had any problems.
mplayer aditionally should have pulse enabled.
The mixer issue is something to discuss about.
"alsamixer -c0" is a good way to regain the control over the hardware
mixers, but that's probably not very user-friendly. Otherwise
pavucontrol has the option to control the volume of each stream
separatelly and also to move a stream from one output to another
(imagine moving skype from the internal sound card to a bluetooth or usb
headset).
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дамјан
