On Dec 17, 2007 12:42 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 06:15:59PM -0500, Ritesh Kumar wrote: > > BTW, what does pacmd's set-default-sink/source do? What is the > meaning of > > the default sink? I figured out that alsamixer (through the pulse alsa > > plugin) always changes the mixer controls for the current default sink > as > > per the pulseaudio daemon. However, I don't think the playback of a > > connecting client always goes to the current default sink. Is this > expected > > behavior? > > I think module-volume-restore is putting the streams it > recognizes to some other sink than the default. That is > expected behaviour. Otherwise the default sink should get > all new streams, assuming that the PULSE_SINK environment > variable isn't set. > That works. However, now it seems that the current default sink is also used for any new sink-inputs. I was hoping that the client would be associated to the default sink when it connected and any new sink-inputs from the client always went to that sink. Seems more intuitive, doesn't it? > > Plus, I had a little suggestion too. Can we have a > > get-default-sink/source command in pacmd/pactl? > > Create a ticket in Trac. I suppose that wouldn't be hard at > all to implement, at least for pacmd. > Done. Thanks a lot! Ritesh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20071217/8ea54221/attachment.htm>
