On Sat, 2012-04-21 at 05:27 -0300, Diogo F. S. Ramos wrote: > I've attached a program in the end which accomplishes the task I was > trying to do initially. Would you say it is the straight forward way to > do it? Yes. It leaks memory and can get stuck on some error conditions, but it's definitely about as simple as you can get. > Now I see libpulse is like GTK with regards of the main thread of the > program. This imposes a little challenge to interactive programs. How so? I can see how it imposes a little challenge for cases where synchronous operations would be good enough, but I consider the asynchronous operations to be mainly a good thing for interactivity (the ui doesn't get stuck waiting for reply from the Pulseaudio daemon). > Is that the reason pacmd an pactl use different strategies to interact > with the server? I don't know, I wasn't around when pacmd and its protocol was written. For what it's worth, I'd like to get rid of pacmd and its protocol. -- Tanu
