Sorry, there was a mistake go one of lines. The low priority stream is just getting muted. It is not paused. Thanks, Sathish On Nov 28, 2013 2:48 PM, "sathishkumar sivagurunathan" < sathish1000 at gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks Tanu for the reply, > > I wanted to test the module "module role cork" . So I started two media > players using the gst launch tool. One had media role as phone and other > had media role as music. When I tested using the "module role cork", it > worked good. The player with media role "music" was paused. > > As the next step, I tested with two different players. > > 1) gst launch tool -- media role = phone > > 2) qt based application ( runs on phonon - gstreamer framework ) -- with > media role as music. > > When the "module role cork" is used, the music stream is just muted but > not paused. > > I tried with a few other players too. The low priority stream is just > paused. > > I could not understand where the difference is coming from. > > Can you help me with this. > > Thanks, > Sathish > On Nov 22, 2013 10:38 PM, "Tanu Kaskinen" <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> > wrote: > >> On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 10:57 -0500, sathishkumar sivagurunathan wrote: >> > Thanks Tanu for the detailed reply.. >> > >> > A) I would great if whatever I am intending to do could be added to >> > pulseaudio. But I feel what I need to do is already implemented in the >> > module "Module-role-cork" --> Essentially priority assignment between >> the >> > streams played by pulseaudio. >> >> module-role-cork has very primitive priority model: one role is defined >> to have "high" priority, and some other roles can have "low" priority. >> Streams that have some role that has neither "high" or "low" priority >> are ignored. So, module-role-cork works if this limited model is good >> enough for you. Of course, module-role-cork could perhaps be improved if >> necessary. >> >> > B) The only differentiator is that instead of the (media player or >> skype) >> > application assigning the media.role variable, I want the Audio Manager >> or >> > Routing system (to which the other applications like skype and media >> player >> > register) to manage assignment of this variable.. >> > >> > C) I have a question in this regard. I have listed it below. >> > >> > So "*if I can keep the Module-role-cork running by adding it to the >> > default.pa <http://default.pa> file, I hope that assignment of the >> media >> > role variable will take care of priority (what is to be corked and >> > uncorked).*" -- Is this assumption right ?? >> >> Yes. >> >> > D) So the module intent to write has the following aim :- >> > >> > Based on the Audio Manager or routing mechanism status, media.role >> > priority of the particular audio stream needs to be assigned.. >> >> Exactly. >> >> > *E) I have a few doubts in my mind abt the way in which the module can >> be >> > called*. In your reply, you have mentioned that the module can call and >> > consult the Audio Manager. Is the other way possible. In order words, >> > >> > *Is their by any chance the module can loaded from my routing mechanism >> > code itself.. * >> > >> > From the simple test I could carry out, the command line arguments for >> this >> > prioritizing functionality seems to go like this >> > "*pactl load-module <module-name>*". Is there by any chance I can load >> > these modules from a C++ program. >> >> pactl is a normal pulseaudio client. Whatever pactl does you can do too >> using the C API: http://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/ >> >> > F) I also tried to carry out a few simple test to check how the routing >> > works in pulse audio when media player is playing when a phone call over >> > skype arrives.. But in ubuntu 12.10, the MODULE-ROLE-CORK command doesnt >> > seem to working. I am using pulseaudio 2.0. >> > >> > I had tried in ubuntu 12.04 LTS. the module "MODULE-CORK-MUSIC-ON-PHONE" >> > seems to be working good for me (pulseaudio 1.1). *Is that I should >> upgrade >> > to the latest ubuntu version 13.10 and check..* >> >> module-cork-music-on-phone was renamed to module-role-cork in 2.0. >> >> > G) The command format I used in pulseaudio 2.0 to load the >> > "module-role-cork" is like this >> > >> > * pactl load-module module-role-cork trigger_roles="phone" >> > cork_roles="video"* >> > >> > Is this the right way to do this.. >> >> The right way to do what? If you want to load module-role-cork with >> pactl, then yes, that's the way to do it. >> >> -- >> Tanu >> >> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20131128/edfb11c8/attachment-0001.html>
