Hi Colin, Port inherits the following method from the Line interface: void *close*() Closes the line, indicating that any system resources in use by the line can be released. If this operation succeeds, the line is marked closed and a |CLOSE| event is dispatched to the line's listeners. I'm not sure how to release the system resources used by the line, since I've never allocated them myself. Would muting the sink/source and sending a CLOSE event be enough? I don't think there's any way for someone using the Java API to tell whether the line is using any system resources or not. Thanks, Ioana Colin Guthrie wrote: > Ioana Ivan wrote: > >> Thanks, that's what we decided to do. >> >> I have a question regarding closing the pulseaudio sinks/source. Should >> I use pa_context_suspend_sink/source_by_index/name or just mute them? >> I'm not sure exactly what pa_context_suspend_sink_by_index should do; >> I've tried using it and it didn't seem to have any effect (i.e. I could >> still hear the sound). >> > > Not really sure what you mean by "I have a question regarding closing > the pulseaudio sinks/source." (namely the "closing" bit). Do you mean > when you are done and want to exit your application? Or do you just mean > "stop it from outputting sound"? > > If the latter, I think mute is better. Suspend is when the devices have > been asked to be suspended so that another application can use the audio > hardware (or on a timeout so that pulse does not sit there hogging the > device!) > > e.g. you can run an application that wants direct access to sound h/w via: > > shell> $ pasuspender myapp > > And it will suspend pulse's access to the device for the duration of the > applications lifetime. > > While I don't know how the Java Ports thing works at all, I'd suspect > you just want to mute it. > > HTHs > > Col > > > >
