[pulseaudio-discuss] Unload echo-cancel devices

[Arun Raghavan]

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 23:34 -0700, Lazar Doru wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> 
> I have a question. I'm developing a conference application, and
> therefore I am using
> the PulseAudio echo-cancellation. Every time I'm creating an
> echo-cancelled stream,
> PulseAudio will create a new source/sink for the stream, but when I
> disconnect/remove
> the stream, PulseAudio does not unload the source/sink created for it
> right away.
> 
> 
> My question is: Is there a way to manually unload the source/sink or I
> shouldn't worry
> about them?

You should just be setting the filter.want property to 'echo-cancel' and
let PulseAudio manage loading the canceller where appropriate.

Regards,
Arun