Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 12.07.07 00:00, Vasili Sviridov (vsviridov at exceede.com) wrote: > > Hi! > > >> I have created an ALSA alias (called 51to20) which does a mix-down >> from surround to stereo. So what I want to do, is to create a >> pulseaudio sink specifically for that alias. So that if I play a AC3 >> file to that sink it would get mixed down and passed to the stereo >> speakers. But apparently module.alsa.sink only understands physical >> devices and not aliases. Is there any way to make aforementioned setup >> possible? >> > > You should be able to pass "device=51to20" to module-alsa-sink for > this to work. > > Lennart > > That was one of the things I've tried, but i get the errors along the lines of pcm_dev_open : no such device 51to20. I've looked into the sink source, but it's too alsa-specific, i have no clue as per what's going on there... btw, my alsa is self-compiled (ubuntu's version has some bugs to it), could that be causing any trouble? V.
