------- Original Message ------- On Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 12:46 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Apr 2023, Ben Koenig wrote: > > > For real though your description of Pavucontrol's display doesn't make any > > sense. It looks like you are conflating the device list displayed in the > > Output Devices tab with the drop down that allows you to select which Port > > is currently in use. Are you looking for a missing USB audio device or are > > you trying to configure which port your motherboard's sound chip is > > outputting on? > > > Ben, > > See the update I just posted: news and youtube videos: sound; zoom test > meeting no sound. As naive about computer audio as I am the results make no > sense to me. > > Regards, > > Rich It makes perfect sense. This isn't a straight-laced ALSA system from the late 90's. There's jack sensing and stream-based audio processing. For Pulseaudio, each application gets its own audio stream. This stream can then be moved from one device to another without the application having to restart playback. So yes, there are going to be times where different applications behave differently. Your troubleshooting steps are adding more confusion to the problem. Now if you want to stop randomly moving things from one port to another in a desperate attempt to get it working, then we can probably go through and actually troubleshoot the problem. Like I mentioned in my original response there's something screwy with what you described in pavucontrol and given the discrepancy you just ran into between your browser and zoom you are just confirming my suspicion. You got some funky pavucontrol settings and moving to a different port is just going to make the problem worse, NOT BETTER. Being naive has nothing to do with it. I'll tell you the same thing I tell all the Windows users I talk to about audio issues: - remove all extra devices and make sure it works with the most minimal hardware setup. - once we confirm that basic audio is working we can add your devices and make whatever adjustments are needed in pavucontrol to get audio in/out Normally on a Friday like this I'd be doing onsite tech support for a well-known shoe company, but I've got a nice big case of COVID. They use Mac/Windows, but this is one of the problems they often have and the solution is always the same. What OS you happen to be using is just minor details... -Ben
