[pulseaudio-discuss] Virtual device in Pulseaudio

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 16:14 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> While I don't know much about it, git master does have a kind of virtual
> device that is used for the new built in equaliser stuff. It may be that
> you could use that.
> 
> 
> Alternatively you could simply use a null sink (call it what you want,
> play your stuff to the null sink, then have a gst pipeline that records
> from the monitor source of that sink, does it's processing and then
> plays it back to a real sink. That should work OK if you can live with
> all the delays and inefficiences etc. such an approach creates.

That "etc" contains also the buffering issues that are caused by clock
drift... But whatever, apparently it's still good enough (unless Alexey
is using the equalizer in git - his reply wasn't completely clear about
this).

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Tanu Kaskinen