'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 29/06/09 21:55 did gyre and gimble: > On Sun, 28.06.09 17:09, Timothy J Massey (tmassey at obscorp.com) wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> Still working on my multi-zone setup. The goal is to have multiple >> instances of MPD playing, and being able to be routed to 0 or more zones >> simultaneously. Each player is connected to a unique sink created with >> module-combine, with each of these combined sinks including *all* of the >> physical sinks. Something like this: >> >> #Physical sinks for actual hardware >> load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:1,0 sink_name=zone1 >> load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:2,0 sink_name=zone2 >> load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:3,0 sink_name=zone3 >> #Module-combine sinks for handling each MPD >> load-module module-combine sink_name=mpdplayer1 slaves=zone1,zone2,zone3 >> load-module module-combine sink_name=mpdplayer2 slaves=zone1,zone2,zone3 >> load-module module-combine sink_name=mpdplayer3 slaves=zone1,zone2,zone3 >> >> For now, I have a single instance of MPD playing through sink mpdplayer1. >> When I start up MPD and play something, I get audio out of all three >> sinks. So far, so good. >> >> Now, though, I would like to mute the sound in all but one of the zones. I >> can't simply do something like: >> >> set-sink-mute zone2 >> set-sink-mute zone3 >> >> Because that would mute the outputs for those zones, and they might be >> (and likely are) playing music from one of the other MPD sessions. What I >> want to do is tell the module-combined sink (mpdplayer1) to only send >> audio to one of the sinks and to mute the output to the other two sinks. >> >> Is this possible? I cant seem to find a way to interact with the >> individual channels within a module-combine... > > So basically you want to add/remove underlying sinks from > a particular module-combine instance dynamically? > > We do that with the fully automatic mode right now. However, there is > no way to control this manually for a specific > instance. Sorry. Having read the code recently I kinda figured that this may have been the case. I may work on a combine manipulation UI at some point in the future as it's an oft requested feature and a nice easy way to control it would be pretty nice. 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/]
