[LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

[Chris Cannam]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Lennart Poettering <mzynq at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> You can move any active stream on-the-fly to a different device. Just
> right-click on it in pavucontrol.

Wow, I never knew this program existed.

Admittedly that doesn't say much, beyond that I'm too lazy to read the
front page of your wiki.  But I'd sort of assumed that if nice GUI
configuration programs for PulseAudio existed, they would exist in the
default install of the current Ubuntu, since it runs Pulse by default.
 And they don't.

So, hey ho.  There's no accounting for distributions.

Nice utility.  I installed it from the Ubuntu 8.04 repo; the first
time I ran it (in a system where the soundcards were already being
hogged by Flash and JACK and thus Pulse hadn't been able to open any
outputs) it crashed on startup in a string assignment (segv in
Glib::ustring::operator=, no other debug symbols available I'm
afraid), but it worked when run against a working PulseAudio daemon.
I assume the Ubuntu package isn't the freshest anyway.


Chris