Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Has anyone ever gotten Orca and Pulse Audio to work together well?

2009-12-22 Thread Halim Sahin
Hi, On Sa, Dez 12, 2009 at 04:32:22 -0500, Daniel Chen wrote: On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill Cox waywardg...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to narrow down where the problem is that causes the 1/2 second delay when Orca tries to read text using pulseaudio.  Is it in pulseaudio's main

[pulseaudio-discuss] HDMI Sound ridiculously quiet

2009-12-22 Thread Patrick McMichael
Hello all, I am new to this list and am trying to get to the bottom of some sound issues I've been struggling through for a while now. I am not new to linux but confess I am new to and confused by linux sound. After a great deal of difficulty, I've managed to get things working, the sound is

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pa_stream_readable_size() returns 4294967295

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 11.12.09 03:27, Tanu Kaskinen (ta...@iki.fi) wrote: to, 2009-12-10 kello 21:20 +0100, Mads Kiilerich kirjoitti: With reference to http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/pulseaudio/doxygen/stream_8h.html#aa2e5ff19aa36b90471c34badbdfdf345 and using pulseaudio-0.9.15-17.fc11.i586:

[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] More src/pulsecore/cpu-arm.c FTBFS fixes

2009-12-22 Thread Daniel Chen
Hi, Lennart, In addition to the previous preprocessor directive fix, here is another patch that fixes a missing argument to pa_read() and an inconsistency in the declaration of an argument to pa_split_spaces(). Thanks, Dan From 41951e7a2febf58342ef23d28fe8aaec60e222b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] How to disable mixer element IEC958 ?

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 23.11.09 21:05, thaler (j...@gmx.net) wrote: Hi, I have upgraded my system to Fedora 12 and I have PulseAudio 0.9.19. My problem is that I have a switch IEC958 (= S/PDIF) and I want to disable it. (Because if it is on, a red light disturb me) With the old version (Fedora 10),

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Play/repeat a sample loaded on the pulseaudio server

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 24.11.09 17:30, Joan Bertran (jbertr...@gmail.com) wrote: I want to play a sound loaded on the pulseaudio server (a sample) and repeat it an arbitrary number of times in a loop. I'm using pa_context_play_sample_with_proplist and detecting the end of play with

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Play/repeat a sample loaded on the pulseaudio server

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 24.11.09 17:53, Marc-André Lureau (marcandre.lur...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 5:30 PM, Joan Bertran jbertr...@gmail.com wrote: It would be great if pa_context_play_sample_with_proplist could especify a number to repeat the sound, perhaps a property into

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 26.11.09 01:27, David Csercsics (a...@shaw.ca) wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 04:51:25PM +0800, Markus Rechberger wrote: Hi, I've been working quite a while with pulseaudio, one thing that breaks alsa compatibility is that since PA is user based root is not allowed to access

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 26.11.09 14:31, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 26/11/09 08:51 did gyre and gimble: Hi, I've been working quite a while with pulseaudio, one thing that breaks alsa compatibility is that since PA is user based root is not allowed

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 27.11.09 17:30, Henning Oschwald (h.oschw...@gmx.de) wrote: previously you have to ask yourself some very serious questions when you are using a root process to interact with sound anyway? Why should any root process be doing that? Root is evil and should be avoided except when

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Monitoring and Pulseaudio accuracy

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 30.11.09 10:33, Neil Wilson (n...@aldur.co.uk) wrote: Hi all, I have pulseaudio running on Ubuntu and send the sound digitally to a set of High end digital speakers. Since it is Hi-Fi, the work I'm doing involves ensuring wherever possible that the digital bits are not disturbed by

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Profile not found

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 19.11.09 20:26, Maxime Delorme (maximedelo...@laposte.net) wrote: Hi, I've got a sound card with 2 output : analog and SPDIF When playing a sound file with xine-ui I've got 5.1 channel output but in pavucontrol I've got only Digital Stereo (IEC958), I can't see Digital Surround

[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Markus Rechberger
Hi, I was using PA for around 1 1/2 years now. My feedback: 1. I asked for some help which worked out fine at the beginning 2. problems grew and are still growing .. I'd still get some help but I just want to have my stuff work and I'm not interested in playing debugger with Ubuntu anymore. 3. We

[pulseaudio-discuss] Patch to work around some codec's phase inversion when remap_channels mapping stereo to mono

2009-12-22 Thread Bu, Long
Hi all, There are some Inel HDA codecs like ALC272 that inverse phase of one channel when capturing.. remap_channels remaps stereo to mono by simply add one channel to another. the sum is always very very close to zero. ALSA works around this by using copy route policy

[pulseaudio-discuss] pa_stream_seek ... not

2009-12-22 Thread Mads Kiilerich
The streams.h documentation tells how the write pointer can be moved with pa_stream_write() - and reset with pa_stream_flush(). But AFAICS there is no way to move the write pointer without writing anything. pa_stream_write() has assertion on data not being NULL and doesn't move the pointer if

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Wed, 25.11.09 13:37, Jeremy Nickurak (jer...@nickurak.ca) wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 11:48, Colin Guthrie gm...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: PA will always remember what your app has chosen. So if you play something with an app for the very first time, it is assigned to the fallback device

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA-emulation for multiple devices

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 12.12.09 20:22, Vegard Vesterheim (vegard.vesterh...@uninett.no) wrote: I do not understand how pulseaudio arranges ALSA-emulation for multiple devices. I have a typical setup with external speakers connected to the sound card and an USB Headset. My Voip-client (twinkle) uses ALSA.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Unacceptable delay in pulseaudio continues in Lucid

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 12.12.09 08:08, Bill Cox (waywardg...@gmail.com) wrote: Does anyone here know how to begin debugging the 1/2 second delay problem? Most likely your app is simply asking for the high latency. Use pacmd list-sink-inputs to figure out what latency your client requests. If you cannot

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Adding delay in order to sync soundcard with a2dp stream

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Thu, 03.12.09 20:33, Alexander H Deriziotis (jackf...@lavabit.com) wrote: Hi all, I'm outputting audio to both a bluetooth speaker via a2dp and the internal soundcard by using module-combine to create a virtual sink. The problem is that the sound arrives at the bluetooth speaker I

[pulseaudio-discuss] Very strange behavior in pa_simple API test

2009-12-22 Thread Bill Cox
I wrote a super-simple test using the pa_simple API. I have some sound data in a static array. I call getchar(), and then call pa_simple_write, in an infinite loop. When I run this, and just hit enter several times, I expect to hear the sound played once each time I press enter. Instead, it

[pulseaudio-discuss] Two outputs

2009-12-22 Thread Josu Lazkano
Hello everybody! I have a HTPC connected to the TV and to an sound amplifier, I have configured the output from optical. But I need to hear too on the headphones, is it possible? This is my configuration: $ cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2009-12-22 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Lennart Poettering lenn...@poettering.net wrote: On Fri, 27.11.09 17:30, Henning Oschwald (h.oschw...@gmx.de) wrote: previously you have to ask yourself some very serious questions when you are using a root process to interact with sound anyway? Why should

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Everyone has their viewpoint. Gaming in Ubuntu Karmic is quite an unpleasant experience due to the ALSA-PA plugin making games die / have really stuttering sound. Nobody cares about it atm until after the holidays, so I'm still waiting on that for a resolution... I have a USB headset, and no,

[pulseaudio-discuss] Mailing list outage

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Guthrie
Apologies for the lack or replies etc for the last week or so - the mailing list wasn't delivering properly. All sorted now. I'll try and answer the questions I can later tonight. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pa_stream_seek ... not

2009-12-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 14.12.09 20:16, Mads Kiilerich (m...@kiilerich.com) wrote: The streams.h documentation tells how the write pointer can be moved with pa_stream_write() - and reset with pa_stream_flush(). But AFAICS there is no way to move the write pointer without writing anything. pa_stream_write()

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Adding delay in order to sync soundcard with a2dp stream

2009-12-22 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
to, 2009-12-17 kello 11:50 +0100, Lennart Poettering kirjoitti: On Thu, 03.12.09 20:33, Alexander H Deriziotis (jackf...@lavabit.com) wrote: Hi all, I'm outputting audio to both a bluetooth speaker via a2dp and the internal soundcard by using module-combine to create a virtual sink.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Vadim Peretokin vpereto...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone has their viewpoint. Gaming in Ubuntu Karmic is quite an unpleasant experience due to the ALSA-PA plugin making games die / have really stuttering sound. Nobody cares about it atm until after the holidays, so

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Markus Rechberger mrechber...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Vadim Peretokin vpereto...@gmail.com wrote: Everyone has their viewpoint. Gaming in Ubuntu Karmic is quite an unpleasant experience due to the ALSA-PA plugin making games die / have

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 21 December 2009, Colin Guthrie wrote: Hello once again. As an opener to your mail I will point out that at no point to you refer to any of the technical reasons as to why PA adoption is a good thing. All you do is point out the fact that you've had a few problems (and as someone at

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Coding is kewl, I do it myself on smaller systems, but where are the man pages that should allow us to make it Just Work(TM)? [...] I think the majority of us are interested. And contrary to rumors extant all over the web, the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Arun Raghavan arun.ragha...@collabora.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Coding is kewl, I do it myself on smaller systems, but  where are the man pages that should allow us to make it Just Work(TM)? [...] I think the

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Effects of avail_min in ALSA kernel stack

2009-12-22 Thread pl bossart
   I recently submitted two patches for ALSA kernel stack that will guarantee wake_ups to happen at each periodic interrupt. Currently that is not the case when avail_min is greater than period size. It's unclear to me why you would want to set avail_min to more than a period and still get a

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] More src/pulsecore/cpu-arm.c FTBFS fixes

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 17/12/09 07:06 did gyre and gimble: Hi, Lennart, In addition to the previous preprocessor directive fix, here is another patch that fixes a missing argument to pa_read() and an inconsistency in the declaration of an argument to pa_split_spaces(). Both

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] HDMI Sound ridiculously quiet

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Guthrie
Hi Patrick 'Twas brillig, and Patrick McMichael at 14/12/09 02:01 did gyre and gimble: I am new to this list and am trying to get to the bottom of some sound issues I've been struggling through for a while now. I'm afraid I wont be much help as I'm not overly familiar with HDMI audio, but I

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pull request for topic/osx

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Daniel Mack at 16/12/09 07:06 did gyre and gimble: There are a couple places where it appears a final #else #endif has been removed... this means code will be compiled that isn't needed (the previous matching #if/#elif block ends with a return) Some compilers throw up

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 17/12/09 09:28 did gyre and gimble: On Thu, 26.11.09 08:40, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Daniel Chen at 25/11/09 19:50 did gyre and gimble: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Vadim Peretokin vpereto...@gmail.com

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-12-22 Thread Vadim Peretokin
Not always. It'll randomly forget what goes where. Takes me a moment of confusion after making sure sound isn't muted to realize... ___ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Arun Raghavan wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Coding is kewl, I do it myself on smaller systems, but where are the man pages that should allow us to make it Just Work(TM)? [...] I think the majority of us are interested. And

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-12-22 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2009-12-22, wto o godzinie 16:47 -0500, Vadim Peretokin pisze: Not always. It'll randomly forget what goes where. Takes me a moment of confusion after making sure sound isn't muted to realize... Maybe it's because of per-stream default? For example, if you've manually moved a stream (== an

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-12-22 Thread Vadim Peretokin
The thing is that I never move them back. I'm always moving them to my USB headset. ___ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Why no 'default device' option?

2009-12-22 Thread Michał Sawicz
Dnia 2009-12-22, wto o godzinie 17:06 -0500, Vadim Peretokin pisze: The thing is that I never move them back. I'm always moving them to my USB headset. What PA version is that? Also, IIRC fallback only works for new streams, so if you have something playing and connect the USB headset, it won't

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Accessing audio as root

2009-12-22 Thread Markus Rechberger
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Colin Guthrie gm...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Markus Rechberger at 22/12/09 16:54 did gyre and gimble: A couple of years ago I used to log in on a remote PC and export XMMS to another PC for playing back audio, I can imagine that this is also

[pulseaudio-discuss] Help for debugging a firefox/flashplugin/pulseaudio issue

2009-12-22 Thread Ozan Çağlayan
Hi, We have a system where we have the following scenario that we can't manually reproduce: Prereqs: - Firefox is open with many tabs including Last.fm, youtube and possibly other sites containing flash applications, - Amarok or another is generally running *but* nothing is currently played

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 22/12/2009 21:49, Gene Heskett a écrit : Now I have. And it seems awfully complex for something that should just work. I'll bite. PulseAudio, while not being 100% perfect yet, is like NetworkManager 4 years ago, or Compiz about 2 years ago. All those projects have in common that

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Colin Guthrie
'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 22/12/09 20:49 did gyre and gimble: On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Arun Raghavan wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Coding is kewl, I do it myself on smaller systems, but where are the man pages that should allow us to make

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Effects of avail_min in ALSA kernel stack

2009-12-22 Thread jassi brar
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:02 AM, pl bossart bossart.nos...@gmail.com wrote:    I recently submitted two patches for ALSA kernel stack that will guarantee wake_ups to happen at each periodic interrupt. Currently that is not the case when avail_min is greater than period size. It's unclear to

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio in general - does it make sense?

2009-12-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Colin Guthrie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Gene Heskett at 22/12/09 20:49 did gyre and gimble: On Tuesday 22 December 2009, Arun Raghavan wrote: On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 12:47 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] Coding is kewl, I do it myself on smaller systems, but where

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Two outputs

2009-12-22 Thread Tanu Kaskinen
ti, 2009-12-22 kello 20:34 +, Colin Guthrie kirjoitti: Now as PA will not add individual sinks for both the digital and analog, you'll have to load a separate module-alsa-sink for the other one you want - e.g. if auto-detection will load digital, you should add a separate sink for analog.

[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio Mixing DSP Mixing

2009-12-22 Thread tieg
Many people has ever suspect on pulseaudio software mixing. If you have hardware mixing why using software mixing. Lennart argue that hardware mixing is a thing of the past, modern soundcards don't do it anymore, and modern CPU with necessary SIMD commands is the trend to solve mixing performance