[pulseaudio-discuss] ALSA Sink to ALSA Alias

[Vasili Sviridov]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 12.07.07 00:00, Vasili Sviridov (vsviridov at exceede.com) wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>   
>> I have created an ALSA alias (called 51to20) which does a mix-down
>> from surround to stereo. So what I want to do, is to create a
>> pulseaudio sink specifically for that alias. So that if I play a AC3
>> file to that sink it would get mixed down and passed to the stereo
>> speakers. But apparently module.alsa.sink only understands physical
>> devices and not aliases. Is there any way to make aforementioned setup
>> possible?
>>     
>
> You should be able to pass "device=51to20" to module-alsa-sink for
> this to work. 
>
> Lennart
>
>   
That was one of the things I've tried, but i get the errors along the 
lines of pcm_dev_open : no such device 51to20.

I've looked into the sink source, but it's too alsa-specific, i have no 
clue as per what's going on there...

btw, my alsa is self-compiled (ubuntu's version has some bugs to it), 
could that be causing any trouble?

V.