'Twas brillig, and Yves (theYinYeti) at 14/06/10 08:48 did gyre and gimble: > Le 14/06/2010 01:59, Jason Taylor a ?crit : >> I just realized I missed one other use case... pa has no concept of >> window order.. >> - With 2 streams of the same role (other then notification) are >> active the stream that has the higher client in the window stack >> should be the active stream, all other streams should be corked > > I'm not absolutely sure of what "corked" means, but it seems to mean > "paused". > If so, I don't agree. Here's an example where I don't want anything to > happen to current sound when another sound of the same nature begins: > > My son watches a cartoon on TV, the picture of which comes from the > S-Video output of the PC (display :1 ); the sound is directed at the TV > as well using sound card #2. > Meanwhile, on the computer's screen (display :0 ), I watch a conference, > the sound of which goes to the screen's integrated speakers through > sound card #1. > > This setup is quite common with me. Even more often (but then roles are > different I guess), the HiFi plays Deezer (good music) while the > integrated speakers let me hear both the orator of the lengthy > conference I'm attending, and the events' sounds of the little game I > have alongside, for moments in the conference when there's nothing > interesting being said. > > I definitely don't want any sound to ever be paused or stopped > automatically. But then, maybe I'm not part of the normal users... I think you're probably right about being "not part of the normal users", but that's not to say the problem isn't solvable. For example, each stream has the following property: window.x11.display = ":0.0" It would be theoretically possible to make the cork rules only affect streams that are on the same display as the one that triggers them. e.g. a video on display :1 would not affect music on display :0 or similar. It obviously makes things more complicated, but it's theoretically possible if someone puts in the work! 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/]
