Thanks Colin for your suggestions, that give me some good directions to start with. I tried to modify existing module "module-cork-music-on-phone" , I have few queries: 1. I am now able to Cork(Pause) the "event" stream while a new "phone" stream arrives. but instead my requirement is to to permanently STOP the "event" stream instead of Corking while "phone" call stream exists? Is there any event/api I can use to achieve this? (Currently I am corking the stream using pa_sink_input_send_event(ignore, PA_STREAM_EVENT_REQUEST_CORK, NULL) API ) 2. I just need to give a try to play sample cache (beep) first in the same module (module-cork-music-on-phone) {Just Playback no role supression initially at this stage} for that: - How to init the module so that it would load the suppression_sound (if present) into the sample cache - Where (Location) to copy the sound (beep) .wav file ? - How to Play the .wav from the module? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Himanshu Chug <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 'Twas brillig, and Himanshu Chug at 02/06/11 14:29 did gyre and gimble: > Thanks Colin. got your point here. > Now similar to music cork over phone, I need to cork the stream with > role="event" when another stream with role="phone" becomes active. > (here event can be sms alert etc) , Do I need to write any new module > for this? or this can be achieved some how, any pointers can be helpful? Initially I'd suggest that you could modify cork-music-on-phone to be more generic (I've a funny feeling I've suggested this to someone before too), perhaps renaming it to module-auto-cork or something suitably generic. Then make it configurable which streams to cork and on which triggers. e.g. load-module module-auto-cork trigger_roles=phone,event cork_roles=music,video The defaults being "phone" for trigger_roles and "music,video" for cork_roles. But... > I need to Play a Beep kind of sound when an "event" stream (say sms) > came during active "phone" call stream and cork the actual "event" > (sms tone) stream. > > So there are two requirements now: > 1. Cork the "event" stream during active "phone" stream. > 2. Mixing the "phone" stream with new Beep stream. OK, so now this gets a little more complicated. Ultimately you want to change the event sound to something else... I think this specifically requires a more specialised module. Something that, when it finds an event stream while a phone stream is active, actually plays a different, (much more subtle and unobtrusive) sound (perhaps a sample in the sound sample cache?) instead. I think this in particular is more specialise and thus has to be handled before the module-auto-cork got it's hands on it. For that reason, I'd suggest a module-event-suppress module, that works in the following way: load-module module-role-suppress suppress_roles="event" suppression_sound=/path/to/sound.wav This module would work pretty much like I describe above. On init, it would load the suppression_sound (if present) into the sample cache and then suppress any event sounds and instead play the sample cache. I think this would work pretty well. </blockquote></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Himanshu Chug <<a href="mailto:himanshu.chug@gmail.com">himanshu.chug@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Adding to my question: + I need to Play a Beep kind of sound when an "event" stream (say sms) came during active "phone" call stream and cork the actual "event" (sms tone) stream. So there are two requirements now: 1. Cork the "event" stream during active "phone" stream. 2. Mixing the "phone" stream with new Beep stream. Thanks, Himanshu<div> <div></div><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Himanshu Chug <<a href="mailto:himanshu.chug@gmail.com" target="_blank">himanshu.chug@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Thanks Colin. got your point here. Now similar to music cork over phone, I need to cork the stream with role="event" when another stream with role="phone" becomes active. (here event can be sms alert etc) , Do I need to write any new module for this? or this can be achieved some how, any pointers can be helpful? Best Regards, Himanshu<div><div></div><div> <div class="gmail_quote"> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie" target="_blank">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> 'Twas brillig, and Himanshu Chug at 01/06/11 07:27 did gyre and gimble: <div>> Thanks for the quick reply Amanda, actually I need to understand this in > some more details , > since I am new to pulseaudio please forgive if I ask something with not > much sense > 1. What this module do? and how PA modules can be loaded? </div>It more or less does as Amanda suggests. It corks/pauses the music streams when a phone stream is active on the same sink. In order to "cork" the application must handle cork requests from PA (thus allowing the app to properly pause itself). Just in case the app does not handle the cork, PA will mute the stream also. When the phone stream disappears, the stream is unmuted and the uncork request is sent. It's up to the music app to handle this gracefully. Modules are loaded typically by the <a href="http://default.pa" target="_blank">default.pa</a> script that is processed on startup. module-cork-music-on-phone is part of the <a href="http://default.pa" target="_blank">default.pa</a> we ship. <div> > 2. How and When the module "module-cork-music-on-phone" comes to > picture or gets loaded? What condition triggers to load this module? </div>It's listens for new streams and when it find both two streams tagged with phone and a music respectively, it will cork/pause the music one. <div> > 3. I am setting the role through music application. </div>Yeah, if you set it explicitly that's best but PA also tries to parse the .desktop file shipped with apps to try and augment the properties if possible. 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