On 07.11.2011 11:23, Colin Guthrie wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Ben Bucksch at 07/11/11 02:55 did gyre and gimble: >> On 07.11.2011 03:34, Ben Bucksch wrote: >>> Is there a module that can run a (configurable) shell command when >>> >>> * sound output is needed, i.e. an application plays a sound, and >>> it's not muted >>> * no sound output is needed anymore, after a certain configurable >>> timeout, e.g. no sound played in the last 120 minutes >>> >>> ? Effectively, this would work exactly like a screen saver, just for >>> sound, not for the screen/input. >> FYI: Ford_Perfect pointed me to >> http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/device-reservation.html >> http://git.0pointer.de/?p=reserve.git;a=blob_plain;f=reserve.txt >> >> (if anybody has better solutions, please let me know) > Ahh interesting. Yeah you could use this to know when PA is playing > sound. All you'd need is a simple dbus integration and you could write > your app accordingly completely separate of PA. > > The other option is to get your hands dirty, write a module in PA and > use that. > > I think other people may have posted similar modules in the past, but it > won't be too difficult to do it either way - module-suspend-on-idle will > have pretty much all the infrastructure you'd need. > > Of course some apps misbehave (e.g. flash) and keep their streams around > even when they are not playing and thus may need some kind of special > handling here that you probably won't get via dbus or idle status. Ah. That's why I said "an application plays a sound" not "a source is connected". I have apps connected constantly, e.g. an mplayer on pause. This is normal in my usecases, the speakers *must* turn off anyway. If the dbus trick doesn't provide that, I can't use that. Does module-suspend-on-idle handle this case? Can I hook up a shell command there? > other people may have posted similar modules in the past Do you have the URL of them, or at least remember some keywords to search for? Ben -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20111107/885cc73e/attachment-0001.htm>
