[pulseaudio-discuss] Pulse with a bluetooth headset

[Leszek Koltunski]

> Yes, that is correct. As long as your ALSA devices are set to pulse you
> can use the pulse mixer for everything and get rid of dmix altogether.
> (Pulse does a much better job of this IMO.) Note that SOME ALSA
> applications won't work right with the pulse emulation, and OSS support
> using padsp isn't quite perfect. For example, VirtualBox, which uses
> ALSA natively, doesn't work right with pulse. And snes9x that uses OSS,
> doesn't work with padsp. The only option for it is to either use dmix
> along with pulse (bad idea), or use pasuspender which will completely
> suspend the pulse server while the app is running.

Oh yeah, I do use VirtualBox. But sound in it is not essential, and 
during the rare occurence when I do use it, I suppose I can do the 
pasuspender thing.

I don't care about OSS at all.

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How about FlashPlugin 9 ? Can it use the virtual 'pulse' ALSA device?

I hoped that anything which can output sound to a hardware 
ALSA soundcard can also use a virtual ALSA card, but as we can see with 
Skype + BlueZ-audio and VirtualBox + pulse, this is not always the 
case...

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Has anyone on this list tried to use Pulse with bluetooth headsets?