Michael wrote: > On Tuesday, 5 May 2020 18:33:29 BST Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 9:43 AM Dale <[email protected]> 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.
I was even thinking if I could disable things like Kmix and such to make it simple. I remember years ago when everything was muted by default. After a fresh install, you would have to go to each audio program and unmute in order to get sound. Miss even one, no sound. Having just one seems to be more simple. Waiting on some downloads to finish before I can do anything. May have to logout and back in again anyway, That silly sddm thingy is still hoggin up a lot of memory. I have to reset about every day to clear that up. Where's my hammer?? :/ Dale :-) :-) :-)
