On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 03:38:59PM +0100, Patrick May wrote: > Hello, > > I want to stream audio from a game to discord, while also sharing my mic at > the same time. > > This is a very common thing that people do all the time on other operating > systems. For some reason this seems to be almost impossible to do with > Pulseaudio. > > Why is it so difficult? It's certainly not impossible, but it's more of an advanced feature so not many of the user utilities expose an easy way of doing this. There was actually a discussion about something pretty similar last year on the mailing list. This message here: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2020-May/031770.html ...was my response describing the setups for doing a simple "mic + program audio" mix, as well as a more complicated "mic + program audio with separate monitoring bus" mix. The audio routing gets a bit complicated since you need to be careful not to create feedback loops. Feel free to read through that whole message thread, there's a lot of info in it. To your other question about how to make loopbacks work, you need to use the pulseaudio source or sink names. To find these, run one of the following commands: $ pactl list sinks $ pactl list sources ...and look for the "Name:" line under each listed source / sink. Feel free to ask if there's still anything that's unclear. --Sean
