[pulseaudio-discuss] Getting a null sink to show up as an ALSA device.

[Chris]

Thanks guys, this clears things up for me.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 20/10/11 07:21 did gyre and gimble:
>> On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 19:56 -0400, Chris wrote:
>> (That exclamation mark means that this definition will override the
>> older definition for "default" if it happens to have been defined
>> already in some other configuration file). That alsa device will use
>> whatever sink Pulseaudio thinks is best. For making alsa devices for the
>> null sink and its monitor, this should work:
>>
>> pcm.vac {
>>     type pulse
>>     device vac
>> }
>>
>> pcm.vacmonitor {
>>     type pulse
>>     device vac.monitor
>> }
>>
>
> You can also provide a hint which some alsa clients will use:
>
>
> pcm.vac {
>    type pulse
>    device vac
>    hint {
>        show on
>        description "My Nice VAC"
>    }
> }
>
> aplay -L
> vac
>    My Nice VAC
> ....
>
>
> Col
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