'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 14/11/09 11:25 did gyre and gimble: > 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 I think three times is probably an underestimate. Thanks for that. I was thinking of doing something similar on the wiki while I wrote that but with some kind of ironic lazyness I didn't bother :p Thanks! 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/]
