[LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 30.09.08 16:31, Chris Cannam (cannam at all-day-breakfast.com) wrote:

> 
> 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.

File bugs against Ubuntu.

Lennart

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