[pulseaudio-discuss] Optimize PA for mobile usage

[Pierre-Louis Bossart]

> So it is not about CPU consumption, pulseaudio is economical with CPU as is.

Have you loaded the module module-suspend-on-idle? If nothing is playing
(and your volume UI isn't showing), the output device should be burn any
power.

> I was not successful with this shot (old syntax?):
> 
> add-autoload-sink alsa_sink module-alsa-sink device="hw:0"
> add-autoload-source alsa_source module-alsa-source device="hw:0"

Never seen this syntax, use module-detect...

> Second issue: I have one application (Zoiper) which can only access ALSA at the moment (because it will not allow me to input non-hardware ALSA device names like pcm.pulse). Is there some hack/workaround to get such applications to talk to pulseaudio?

use the pulse plugin from alsa-plugins. Works fine.