On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 4:37 PM, Dave Neary <dne...@free.fr> wrote: > > Also, if you are like me using ubuntu, be cautious to select "default > > device" as your audio device and not the one corresponding to your sound > > card name. (I haven't investigated yet why we cannot use the other one) > > Yes, I just tried this, setting default device is better. This is really > weird - they should be the same thing. It wouldn't be unusual for > someone to use a USB headset and want to configure which card to use on > the fly, so this is actually a pretty big issue.
Modern distributions use pulseaudio by default, and the ALSA "default" device is configured to point to the "pulse" device. If you want to route your audio to a USB device, for example, you should do that using pulseaudio rather than changing the ALSA device in the application (use e.g. gnome mixer or padevchooser). What are the advantages? -you can switch the audio device on-the-fly without the need to hang-up -you do need to write the code for handling multiple devices in the application (why implement it in every application that uses audio? just have the applications handle one device, and control the audio routing with the system mixer) I can see a point in having to handle multiple devices in the need for separate "audio output" and "ringing", though... IMHO, handling it properly would require implementing usage of pulseaudio API in qutecom, in order to prevent qutecom from competing with pulsaudio for the sound card. Cheers, Ludovico
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