Hello, Here is a question from the developer of Chromium browser, which was asked by him after I filed a bug for regression in Chromium 69: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/issues/573 As nobody answered on GitLab, I am quoting it here. The original author is CCed. Thanks in advance for answering. ------------------------------------------------ https://crbug.com/880180 was recently filed because a recent change in Chromium made it ignore the PULSE_SINK variable when choosing the default output device. After the change, Chromium uses as default the sink obtained by calling pa_context_get_server_info ((https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/introspect_8h.html#a6f3bdd9982d9dec70ca5acf6ada3a9a2), which returns a pa_server_info struct (https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/structpa__server__info.html) containing a default_sink_name field (among others). After this change, things work exactly as described in https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/DefaultDevice/, which does not mention $PULSE_SINK. However, this appears to be in conflict with what is stated https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/FAQ/#index5h3, where it says that $PULSE_SINK is the default sink. Prior to the change in Chromium, the default device was specified using either the empty string or the "default" string, and the sink in $PULSE_SINK was used if specified. This prompted a user to file https://crbug.com/880180, since it broke their use case. I would like to know if this is a bug or if there is a way to get the default device using PulseAudio APIs such that the PULSE_SINK variable is taken into account. -- ------ С Ñ?важением, Ð?иÑ?аил Ð?овоÑ?елов | mikhailnov at dumalogiya.ru | https://nixtux.ru
