[pulseaudio-discuss] Moving speakers around using AC3

[Maarten Bosmans]

Yes, in this way you don't have to switch profiles at all, you just
end up with to sinks, one for the soundcard 5.1 output and a virtual
stereo sink from module-remap.

Pulseaudio remembers when you move streams from one sink to another
(using pavucontrol, for example), so the movie player would always be
playing on the surround sink and your apps go to the stereo sink
automatically.

Maarten

2009/11/28 Michał Sawicz <michal at sawicz.net>:
> Dnia 2009-11-28, sob o godzinie 09:29 +0100, Aurelien Bompard pisze:
>> It does work, but I have to manually choose the alsa output and the "atdesk"
>> driver in mplayer, since and it does not integrate nicely with pulseaudio,
>> etc.
>>
>> My dream setup would be to have a profile in pavucontrol's "Configuration"
>> tab which would allow me to switch from the normal setup to the routed setup
>> at runtime.
>>
>> I've tried many setups in default.pa to do that, but failed.
>>
>> Do you think this is possible, or is it too much of a pony ?
>
> See http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#module-remap-sink
>
> It's possible just fine - you have to create a virtual sink that you
> would feed your streams.
>
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> Pozdrawiam
> Michał (Saviq) Sawicz