'Twas brillig, and marcin at saepia.net at 21/05/11 16:14 did gyre and gimble: > why following command does not work > > load-module module-null-sink sink_description="tuned\ patchbay:\ TCP\ > source\ xxx",sink_name=tuned.patchbay.source.xxx > > > while this one works: > > load-module module-null-sink > sink_name=tuned.patchbay.source.xxx,sink_description="tuned\ > patchbay:\ TCP\ source\ xxx" > > > Why argument order makes difference? Is it correct behaviour or a bug? Neither are correct! The arguments should be separated by spaces, not commas and the argument for "sink_description" is actually "description" (although even this is deprecated as you should now use the more generic "sink_properties" argument with a device.description= entry. In the second example above, by using a comma, you're actually just giving your sink a crazy name without any description at all! e.g. both: load-module module-null-sink description="tuned\ patchbay:\ TCP\ source\ xxx" sink_name=tuned.patchbay.source.xxx and load-module module-null-sink sink_name=tuned.patchbay.source.xxx description="tuned\ patchbay:\ TCP\ source\ xxx" both work fine. But a better way of doing it would be: pactl load-module module-null-sink sink_name=tuned.patchbay.source.xxx sink_properties=\"device.description=\\\"tuned patchbay: TCP source xxx\\\"\" (note that as I passed this ivia the command line, I had to double escape the escaping!) It would be slightly less nasty looking if it was in the startup script (i.e. default.pa or system.pa) HTHs Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
