On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:24:02AM +0200, Sebastian Wieseler wrote: > > Hello guys. > > > > I've got a question about darkice/icecast together with pulseaudio. > > How do they work together? > > > > The only result of Google was: > > gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc > > device=alsa_output.pci_8086_27d8_alsa_playback_0.monitor ! audioconvert > > ! vorbisenc ! oggmux ! shout2send ip=example.com port=8000 > > password=hackme mount=stream.ogg > > > > > > But > > # gst-launch-0.10 pulsesrc > > ERROR: pipeline could not be constructed: no element "pulsesrc". > > failed for me. :-/ > > > > And the ALSA device above is not accepted of the darkice, but I dunno > > what my device is. :-/ > > What do you mean by it's "not accepted of the darkice"? If I > understand that gst-launch command correctly, it's a > complete replacement for darkice. If you want to use that > command, run paman, and see the Devices tab. Under the > Sources section are the devices that you can use for > recording. Ok, it seems that the command isn't a darkice replacement, and I was talking about something that I knew nothing about... Hopefully at least the distinction between pulse and alsa device names became somewhat clear. > If you want to use darkice, you don't use that device name, > because that's a pulseaudio specific name, and darkice > doesn't seem to support pulseaudio natively. You probably > need to give the alsa device name somewhere in darkice's > configuration (I have never used darkice myself). It depends > on distro whether or not you already have an alsa device > that uses pulseaudio. > > If your distro has set up alsa so that by default all alsa > applications use pulseaudio, then a suitable alsa device > name is "default". Otherwise have a look at > http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup#ALSAApplications -- Tanu Kaskinen
