Re: pulseaudio madness

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2013-02-05 06:52, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 5 February 2013 12:44, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> I have a multi-media application/system (built with Poky/Yocto of course)
>> that is currently using ALSA for the sound.  This works great but now
>> I'd like to be able to share some of the sound resources, in particular
>> the audio output (speakers).  To satisfy this, I looked at pulseaudio,
>> but I'm overwhelmed by the package choices (there are 120 packages),
>> not to mention what to do about configuration.
>>
>> I don't see any examples (images, etc) that use pulseaudio.
>>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations on what I might need to install,
>> how to configure it, etc, to take over from my simple ALSA setup?
>
> The top tip is the PulseAudio documentation on the web site, that
> lists all the plugins and what they do.  The pulseaudio-server package
> depends on all of the important plugins, so that gives you a working
> PA setup once you've started it.
>
> You might want to have a look at Guacamayo's use of PA, that uses it
> and will automatically switch output when new speakers are plugged in
> too.    https://github.com/Guacamayo

Thanks, that helped.  I've built Guacamayo for my RaspberryPi and
can see how it's set up.

One thing I'm missing is how the pulseaudio server gets started?

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