On 2012-02-27, Alan Ezust <[email protected]> wrote: > Are we really supposed to use pulseaudio instead of phonon now? How do you
There is nothing that cannot be solved with a additional level of indirection (except too many levels of indirections). The phonon audio architecture is basically like this on linux: (Ascii art coming up) application v libphonon v phonon-backend-foo v | foo > v |1 pulseaudio2 v v | alsalib v v bluetoothaudio audiodevice (for various values of foo). where either 1) (the line from foo to alsa) or 2) pulseaudio and related lines is used. So it is not a 'use pulseaudio instead of phonon' but *also* using pulseaudio. The advantage of the extra level of indirection is among other things that it makes rerouting audio very easy. My current configuration of my 'background noise': In living room, next to my office, I have a great big stereo. From teh loudspeakers comes the music by the fabulous artist 'lykke li'. 'lykke li' is played with 'mplayer' on the computer in my office. To get this to work, I did the following: installed pulseaudio and bluedevil and the pulseaudio bluetooth and of course kmix (and mplayer) Via bluedevil, I configured my bluetooth device in my computer to speak with the bluetooth device that I have attached to the 'tv audio in' RCA ports on my stereo. Then I started playing my sound files, and opened kmix. In kmix, I right clicked on the mplayer stream and clicked 'move to <device>'. And then by magic, music on the good speakers in livingroom, while still having *all* other audio thru the crappy speakersin the computer. I can as easy route the music back. or route other audio to the livingroom. with pulse. There is also somehow network transparncy the same way as there is bluetooth transparancy, but I haven't yet had the need to figure out how. /Sune ps.: alan - I enjoyed your Qt book. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
