[pulseaudio-discuss] module-switch-on-connect: handling virtual sinks

[Georg Chini]

On 12.11.2017 14:36, wellington wallace wrote:
> Another thing that would work is telling Pulseaudio that null sinks 
> created by PulseEffects should never be used as fallback devices. If 
> this was a null sink property I could set it in PulseEffects code and 
> the user would not have to mess with Pulseaudio's configuration.
>
> As we are talking about null sinks I would like to ask one more 
> question. Is it possible to change a null sink rate after it was 
> created? I searched in the libpulse api docs but I could not find a 
> way. I am asking because at PulseEffects startup I set the null sink 
> rate to the same rate of the current fallback device. If the user 
> changes the fallback device to one with different sampling rate while 
> PulseEffects is open we will have unnecessary resampling as the null 
> sink is using the rate of the previous device.
>
> Best regards
>
>                Wellington

Please don't top post. Does that mean the original question was not 
about virtual sinks
but about the null sink? The null sink is not counted as a virtual sink 
and the patch I sent
is useless in that case. The null sinks could however be excluded in
module-switch-on-connect by a similar approach.

I guess it would also be possible to set some "do-not-use-as-default" 
property on a sink
that could be parsed by the default sink selection process, but that 
would not only affect
module-switch-on-connect but would also need to be considered in the core.

>
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Михаил Новоселов, Думалогия 
> <mikhailnov at dumalogiya.ru <mailto:mikhailnov at dumalogiya.ru>> wrote:
>
>     Yes, of course, it's possible to unload module-switch-on-connect,
>     but that is breaking the existimg user setup.
>     "a command line switch could be added
>     to the module so that it ignores virtual sinks" Will be best. Does
>     this flag exist now?
>
>     11 ноября 2017 г. 14:26:21 GMT+03:00, Georg Chini <georg at chini.tk
>     <mailto:georg at chini.tk>> пишет:
>
>         On 11.11.2017 05:28, Михаил Новоселов, Думалогия wrote:
>
>             Hello, PulseEffects, an application, that can apply
>             different effects or equalize both input and output sound,
>             cannot work properly when module-switch-on-connect is on.
>             PulseEffects creates a virtual sinks, but PulseAudio's
>             module-switch-on-connect makes it a default sinks
>             automatically what severely breaks the logic of
>             PulseEffect's work. Please see
>             https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/99
>             <https://github.com/wwmm/pulseeffects/issues/99> 1) Can we
>             specify that the created sink is a virtual one? 2) Maybe
>             there are other ways to prevent module-switch-on-connect
>             from making a newly created virtual device a default one?
>             I wrote the script Dumacast
>             https://github.com/mikhailnov/dumacast
>             <https://github.com/mikhailnov/dumacast> (first of all for
>             my company's (Dumalogiya, http://думалогия.рф
>             <http://xn--80agbsneq0b4h.xn--p1ai>) internal usage), and
>             starting with the newest version of Ubuntu, where
>             module-switch-on-connect is on, I ran into the same
>             troubles. My script
>             https://github.com/mikhailnov/dumacast/blob/master/usr/bin/dumacast
>             <https://github.com/mikhailnov/dumacast/blob/master/usr/bin/dumacast>
>             creates virtual sinks via pactl (lines 135-149), and they
>             are also made default and break the logic of how the
>             script works. I currently have no idea how to handle it
>             without unloading module-switch-on-connect. I tried both
>             Ubuntu's 17.10 default PulseAudio and built from dEbian
>             sources PulseAudio 11, the situation is the same with them
>             both. What can be done?
>
>         Do you really need module-switch-on-connect? If not, you could just
>         check with
>         "pactl list modules short" if the module is loaded and unload it prior
>         to starting
>         your application. You can also remove it fromdefault.pa <http://default.pa>, so that it
>         never gets
>         loaded.
>
>         If you need module-switch-on-connect, a command line switch could be added
>         to the module so that it ignores virtual sinks. The default behavior
>         however can
>         not be changed, because other applications might rely on the current setup.
>
>         Regards
>                        Georg
>
>
>     -- 
>     Простите за краткость, создано в K-9 Mail.
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Prof.° Wellington Wallace Miguel Melo
>
> CEFET/RJ Uned Nova Iguaçu
>

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