[pulseaudio-discuss] Virtual source

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 09:15 +0300, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 15:09 +0200, Geir Birkedal wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-08-10 at 15:41 +0300, Ansis Māliņš wrote:
> > > You can play to a module-null-device and pipe its monitor source to
> > > other applications.
> > 
> > Thanks, but as mentioned I'd rather not use a monitor source, since our
> > client's application is set to ignore monitors.
> 
> Using a null sink and its monitor is the only way that I know to do
> application-to-application routing. Rémi's idea about alsa's loopback
> driver might work too, though - I have zero experience with that.
> 
> I think this workaround would work too: load module-virtual-source on
> top of the monitor source of the null sink. module-virtual-source
> doesn't do much itself (it just copies the data from the master sink),

I meant "master source", not "master sink".

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Tanu