[pulseaudio-discuss] java sound implementation using pulseaudio - ports

[Ioana Ivan]

Hi Colin,

Port inherits the following method from the Line interface:

void *close*()

Closes the line, indicating that any system resources in use by the line 
can be released.
If this operation succeeds, the line is marked closed and a |CLOSE| 
event is dispatched
to the line's listeners.

I'm not sure how to release the system resources used by the line, since 
I've never allocated them
myself. Would muting the sink/source and sending a CLOSE event be 
enough? I don't think
there's any way for someone using the Java API to tell whether the line 
is using any system
resources or not.

Thanks,
Ioana

Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Ioana Ivan wrote:
>   
>> Thanks, that's what we decided to do.
>>
>> I have a question regarding closing the pulseaudio sinks/source. Should 
>> I use pa_context_suspend_sink/source_by_index/name or just mute them? 
>> I'm not sure exactly what pa_context_suspend_sink_by_index should do; 
>> I've tried using it and it didn't seem to have any effect (i.e. I could 
>> still hear the sound).
>>     
>
> Not really sure what you mean by "I have a question regarding closing 
> the pulseaudio sinks/source." (namely the "closing" bit). Do you mean 
> when you are done and want to exit your application? Or do you just mean 
> "stop it from outputting sound"?
>
> If the latter, I think mute is better. Suspend is when the devices have 
> been asked to be suspended so that another application can use the audio 
> hardware (or on a timeout so that pulse does not sit there hogging the 
> device!)
>
> e.g. you can run an application that wants direct access to sound h/w via:
>
> shell> $ pasuspender myapp
>
> And it will suspend pulse's access to the device for the duration of the 
> applications lifetime.
>
> While I don't know how the Java Ports thing works at all, I'd suspect 
> you just want to mute it.
>
> HTHs
>
> Col
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