On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:33:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > Question, somewhat off topic but somewhat on topic. I use smplayer to > > send my videos to my TV using the second port on my video card. I set > smplayer to send the audio to the TV, instead of my puter speakers. I've > never used pulseaudio but with Firefox heading down that path, I might have > to switch. My question is, if I switched to pulseaudio, can I tell it that > smplayer goes to TV and things like Firefox, Seamonkey, gnome-player and > such goes to the puter speakers? From what I've read, it sounds like that > is pretty much what it does. Right now, I'm using ALSA, Kmix and friends. > > Short answer - yes, I believe so. > > Long answer - I don't know how much pulseaudio will remember settings from > session to session. If you emerge pavucontrol (kubuntu installs it by > default, it appears Gentoo requires you to add it. On my system it's > pavucontrol-qt) you should see something akin to this, assuming this link > survives email > > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B_Rgaomiru0DNmuTFUwZy-9q5p4SGo_L > > Each app has a section, each section can be routed where you please. Each > section has a horizontal VU meter so you can see where audio is coming > from. > > If you use pulseaudio then it owns the Alsa stack. You no longer > communicate with Alsa using the old apps. In the general case I believe > that alsamixer continues to work but I wouldn't bet on that for all systems > and all soundcards. > > HTH, > Mark
Kmix displays both in different tabs. Of course it makes sense to use a tool you decided to install (e.g. pulseaudio) rather than trying to fight against it with alsamixer over control of the audio.
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