From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from r-finger.com (r-finger.com [178.79.160.5]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0434BE00527 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 06:44:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (host86-137-74-187.range86-137.btcentralplus.com [86.137.74.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by r-finger.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4B9619BF8 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2013 14:44:56 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <51126C68.3020107@r-finger.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:44:56 +0000 From: Tomas Frydrych User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20120624 Icedove/10.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yocto@yoctoproject.org References: <5110FEC9.5070100@mlbassoc.com> <51125FBC.2090905@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <51125FBC.2090905@mlbassoc.com> Subject: Re: pulseaudio madness X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:44:57 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/02/13 13:50, Gary Thomas wrote: > On 2013-02-05 06:52, Burton, Ross wrote: >> Hi Gary, >> >> On 5 February 2013 12:44, Gary Thomas 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? Depends on the image type, either from /eta/xdg/autostart, or for the audiplayer image from the /etc/init.d/guacamayo-session-* script. Tomas