[pulseaudio-discuss] Upgrading a pa script from Ubuntu 12.04 to 16.10

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 12:56 -0500, Joe wrote:
> On 11/15/2016 05:17 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2016-11-15 at 04:03 -0500, Joe wrote:
> > > The only remaining weirdness (pending further testing and use) is that
> > > vlc seems to remember what audio output it was last using - even if it
> > > isn't running when I switch the outputs. When that happens, I have to go
> > > into the audio menu of vlc and manually select the current desired
> > > output. No big deal, just unexpected.
> > 
> > Is vlc the only one application showing this behaviour? I would expect
> > all applications to do the same. module-stream-restore remembers your
> > choice when you move streams. You probably don't want that feature, and
> > you can disable it by replacing
> > 
> >      load-module module-stream-restore
> > 
> > with
> > 
> >      load-module module-stream-restore restore_device=false
> > 
> > in /etc/pulse/default.pa
> > 
> 
> Tried that. Lost *all* audio upon reboot. System Settings reported no 
> audio devices at all. Put it back in and things were as before after I 
> booted again. Didn't try just logging out.

If you can reproduce this problem, it would be nice if you could file a
bug in the bugzilla[1]. It's very weird if passing restore_device=false
to module-stream-restore breaks all audio.

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=PulseAudio

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