'Twas brillig, and Maxim Levitsky at 29/01/09 18:55 did gyre and gimble: > Here on ubuntu 8.10, it works nicely, I now reinstall in on all my > systems. If you used 8.04 then I'm not surprised you were disappointed. Ubuntu did a pretty bad job of integrating pulseaudio into the system which really didn't reflect well on us (but more so on them!) > I have few questions though: > > * Is this possible to make skype record from pulseaudio (I call it PA > from now on)? > > Playback through skype works fine now, and thanks, but I would like to > do same with recording. > > I am asking this, as maybe you created a workaround for this in dev > version of skype. I'm not sure but I think I remember Lennart talking about fixing the recording interface a bit recently. We'll see if he comments :) > * It seems that PA supports network sound, I found this to be very nice > feature, for example I could play sounds remotely, but how I connect to > remote server, but without disabling to auth system? On each machine, there should be a ~/.pulse-cookie file. If you you forgoe the automatic loading via module-zeroconf-discover and load the module-tunnel-sink manually, you can add the argument cookie=<filename> to allow auth. I am planning on working on a notification and simple input structure in pulse whenever Lennart commits support for integrating with the GLib mainloop. It should form the basis to ask for things like a password etc. when connecting so future versions make this slightly more user friendly. > * Is it possible to combine input from several cards together? > This would be cool for karaoke, as I could combine input of monitor of > sound player with microphone, and record from that. There is module-combine (which works on sinks), so I guess there is scope for someone to write a module-combine-source too. It's not currently possible tho'. > * pulseaudio mixer seems to be build around input and output devices. > each device has just one volume, but each device can have several > inputs, but currently PA doesn't allow to configure that, will (is) > that (be) possible? I think the development version of PA handles this better. it should autoprobe for different device configurations etc. > * If I choose to kill a sound stream in pa settings, this makes > corresponding app stall (even with native PA interface, like rhythmbox) > (I set gstreamer to use PA) I've not played yet but gstreamer's pulse plugin has received some recent love that will be in their next release. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
