[pulseaudio-discuss] a sounding program with several output streams

[Roman Beslik]

Hello.

There are programs which output several sound streams. The reason is 
that streams can be routed to different sound cards (if a user have 
them) for enhanced user experience. E.g., Skype outputs incoming call 
ringing to speakers and talk to a handset. Because programs do not chose 
a sound card when working with PulseAudio, PulseAudio must support 
several streams from 1 program. Is this supported? Now Skype sends 
incoming call ringing to Gnome system sounds and talk to PulseAudio. 
Thanks to Gnome, I managed to split Skype's streams. But this looks like 
some twisted solution. What if I had not Gnome?