On Dec 18, 2007 1:42 PM, Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net> wrote: > On Mon, 17.12.07 18:07, Ritesh Kumar (ritesh at cs.unc.edu) wrote: > > > > I'd say the intuitiveness depends on whether one's intuition > > > says that the client connects to a sink (routing decision > > > done at client connection time) or to the pulseaudio daemon > > > (routing decision done at stream creation time). The > > > asynchronous client API supports the view that client > > > connects to the daemon, because the desired sink is supplied > > > only when creating a new stream. > > > > > > > I guess you are right... probably I will write a module on the lines of > > volume-restore to achieve the effect I need. I seems intuitive to me > because > > the media player that I use (quodlibet through alsa-pulse), creates a > new > > stream for every song (I don't know the details but I am guessing that > every > > media player may need to do this because different songs can have > different > > sample rates/formats). This causes subsequent songs from the same media > > player to move to a different sink if the default sink is changed... > which > > in my view is non-intuitive :). > > If you have loaded module-volume-restore than this should not > happen, because m-v-r remembers the device/volume for the application > using the application name as a key. And as soon as the new stream is > created and the application name is recognized the default > device/volume for its streams is restored. > That's right... but module-volume-restore remembers the sink for the client between client connects. So the next time the same client connects, module-volume-restore will not assign its streams to the default sink but one that it has saved. Basically, I need a module which assigns the default sink to a new connecting client and passes all its streams to that sink regardless of the current default sink (by default pulseaudio uses the default sink for any new sink-inputs). However, if the client disconnects and connects again, it should use the new default sink for the streams of the client (module-volume-restore preserves the sink for the client between client connects). The module could be called some thing like module-preserve-client-sink or something. Ritesh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20071218/216a2b7c/attachment.htm>
