Hello, Sorry for not answering before, I'm terribly busy atm. Just giving a quick answer, a proper answer will need more time.
Paul Gevers, le sam. 17 oct. 2020 08:17:09 +0200, a ecrit: > On 02-09-2020 17:46, Dennis Filder wrote: > > The patch adds a new thread that is on the lookout for Pulseaudio > > processes and reconfigures/restarts the output modules accordingly > > once it finds one. This allows speech-dispatcher (with the correct > > privileges) to transition between ALSA and Pulseaudio without the need > > for a restart (albeit with the loss of the not-yet-spoken messages in > > the module and a pause of about 1-2 seconds). In my experience it > > works quite nicely. > > @Dennis, thanks a lot for working on this. Did you send this upstream as > well? If not, can you do it or do you prefer we do it? > > @Samuel, what do you think of the patch. It's way to involved for me to > judge, but it claims to solve a long standing RC issue. Yes, the "pulse,alsa" user-visible change seems interesting. But the implementation seems fragile to me: looking in /proc content is deemed to break at some point or another. We've been struck hard by such kind of tinkering in the past, I'd rather not see that happen again :/ Samuel