Every DE makes a sound applet of some sort to control levels, I just find
most suck, or are at least diminished from pavucontrol in the name of
trying to make it "simple". Sometimes we need beyond simple.
That said, for a few years pavucontrol would run amok occasionally grabbing
30-40gb of
Michael, thanks for boosting my trust in Mint.
Yes, pavucontrol is available via the regular sources and works perfectly, just
as smooth as on the Mac. I only wondered why they don’t install it by default,
but I guess for some it would just be clutter.
I got my sound running — I’m not sure
Mint's audio panel might not let you do it, but install pavucontrol, which
is pulseaudio volume control, which can (I always install and use this
only).
When you play the video with whatever generating audio, pavucontrol should
show in "playback" menu, with the destination audio as hdmi output
My Mac Mini's Preferences > Sound window lets me “select a device for sound
output.” This works well driving my sound system. It detects other devices but
lets me select my converter:
USB > Digital-to-Analog converter > mixer board.
Everything I find online seems to indicate that nobody’s
