[pulseaudio-discuss] module-role-cork and mp3s

[Georg Chini]

On 13.08.2015 14:58, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-08-13 at 10:50 +0200, Mikhail Morfikov wrote:
>> I have two streams one phone and one video/audio, and when I set the
>> following:
>>
>> load-module module-role-ducking trigger_roles=phone
>> ducking_roles=music,video volume=60%
>>
>> and I start playing an mp3, the volume is lowered to 60% and that's
>> fine. Each time a new mp3 is being played the volume doesn't change,
>> which is also a good thing.
>>
>> There's another module module-role-cork and when it's enabled (also
>> commenting out the line above), it acts a little bit strange. When I
>> start the phone stream, the mp3 is muted, and that's expected, but
>> when
>> another mp3 starts to play, the sound appears.
>>
>> Should that happen?
> Ideally that shouldn't happen, but currently we have a bit limited
> support for managing corking. Currently applications are required to
> cooperate when we want to cork them. module-role-cork sends a cork
> request to an application, and the application will then obey that
> request (or not, but in your case not obeying the request is not the
> problem). To make this work on new streams too, module-role-cork should
> send the cork request also when a new stream appears, which it
> currently doesn't do. It could very well do that, so patches welcome!
>
> Sending a cork request after a new stream has appeared isn't quite
> optimal, since the beginning of the stream may already hit the speakers
> before the corking happens, but that would still be better than the
> current behaviour.
>
> It would be good to have "server-side corking" that wouldn't require
> cooperation from applications. That's a bit more complicated to
> implement.
>
Hi,

you could try if my patches
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/23189
solve the problem because the patches combine module-role-cork
and module-role-ducking (and I believe they should mute/cork a stream
when it appears).

Regards
             Georg