la, 2009-11-14 kello 10:04 +0000, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti: > There is not really such a thing as a "default" audio card in PA. The > term we use is usually "fallback" as this more accurately represents > what it means. PA remembers each application's preferred device. Thus if > you play something in e.g. mplayer and we've never seen an mplayer > stream before, we will use the "fallback" device and then save that > choice in a little database. The next time mplayer tries to play > something, we first look to see if we've got a preferred device for > mplayer and if so, we use it. In this second case the "fallback" device > is not consulted. > > So, from the command line you can indeed set the fallback sink via the > command: > pacmd set-default-sink index|name > > But this will only really change the "fallback", e.g. all apps that have > played before will continue using that device. If you want to change > these previously stored preferences, the only tool that supports that > currently is the gnome-volume-control. pavucontol does not update the > individual application preferences either. > > Hope that clarifies things. I think you've explained that at least three times by now ;) I created a wiki page that you can hopefully use as a canned response in the future: http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/DefaultDevice Please improve it if needed. -- Tanu Kaskinen
