Hello Pulse gurus, I am a long time Debian user. My current audio setup: - 1 Soundblaster Live ( snd-emu10k1x ) hardware soundcard - 1 bluetooth headset to with I send audio with help of the recently developed audio subsystem of the BlueZ stack ( more info: http://wiki.bluez.org/ ) here's the bluetooth-related section of my ~/.asoundrc: pcm.headset_hw { type bluetooth device 00:07:a4:b5:7a:bb } ctl.headset { type bluetooth device 00:07:a4:b5:7a:bb } pcm.headset { type plug slave.pcm "headset_hw" } I dont use any ESDs, jacks, artsds or OSSes - just plain ALSA with dmix. ******************************************************************* Here are all audio related things I would like to accomplish: 1) be able to send sound from MPlayer to both sinks Current status: works with no problems with 'mplayer -ao alsa:device=default' and 'mplayer -ao alsa:device=headset' 2) be able to send sound from Audacious to both sinks Current status: works, audacious can be graphically reconfigured to send audio either to headset virtual sndcard or default sndcard. 3) be able to send sound from FlashPlugin 9 to both sinks Current status: works wonderfully with 'default' ALSA sink; I dont know how to send audio to 'headset' ( maybe if I redefined 'default' to type bluetooth device 00:07:a4:b5:7a:bb in my ~/.asoundrc FlashPlugin would send sound there, but I haven't tried ) 4) Be able to capture and send sounds from Skype to/from both the headset and the default Current status: capturing/sending audio to default works. To headset it does not. On Skype forums they blame bluez for this, on bluez forum they claim Skype's ALSA usage is incredibly weird. 5) I would also like to be able to send multiple sounds to the same soundcard simultanously Current status: lovingly works. 6) I would like to be able to dynamically change sinks, i.e. open up application X and be able to switch its audio sink frm headset to default while the application is running. I would like to be able to do this consistantly in the same way regardless of the application. Current status: doesn't work. I don't care about Gnome system sounds, VLC, XINE or any other audio app. ******************************************************************* Looks like PulseAudio can help me with the issues, especially 6). After reading Pulse's documentation I have the impression that simply installing Pulse and adding the following section to my .asoundrc pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } will retain all my existing functionality and fix issue 6). Furthermore, looks like PulseAudio even has a tray app from where I can dynamically change sinks and adjust volume levels per app. Is that correct? Any comments? thaks in advance, Leszek
