PulseAudio is a free cross-platform network sound server.
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Prevent applications to control master volume on Linux
Whenever I change the volume in VLC, Rhythmbox, or a video on YouTube, it change the master volume, i.e. the system volume. How can I prevent this from happening?
I'm running Debian 7.0.0 (wheezy) ...
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record application audio only with ffmpeg
I would like to use ffmpeg to use application audio only instead of the whole system audio while screen grabbing. How can I do this if the grabbing command is something like this? By application ...
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avconv crashes after ~3 minutes - could be source regression, how do I get last stable version in git?
Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1: 8657 >= 8657
av_interleaved_write_frame(): Invalid argument
[pulse @ 0x2a03400] pa_simple_read failed: Bad state
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How do I recompile libav on ubuntu 12.04 without breaking anything
I have a "Little" script for screencasting - I'll skip to the good part.
In my avconv command I record 3 different sources simultaneously to 3 different tracks. The only way I know of getting audio ...
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How is pulseaudio stitched together?
OK. Pre-post note; this became ugly long, - but the core of an problem is that I'm unable to find good articles or diagrams and explanations on this. There is a lot of "how too"s, but I'm having a ...
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Wine screws up Pulseaudio and USB audio card when already playing ALSA stream
My setup is a Thinkpad T420 with Creative X-Fi USB audio card. Everything usually works fine, I can play multiple streams and arbitrarily move streams from one audio card to another. One use case ...
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anyway to take a 'snapshot' of alsamixer?
my audio card has some issues under ubuntu. everytime i fiddle with the volume, it messes up microphone.
i can't set the microphone at all under ubuntu GUI. it tries to assume things from the ...
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Create Pulseaudio sink with Gstreamer (pulsesink) for later use
I need to pipe an audio signal into 2 applications. Now, both applications require some audio conversion.
Instead of doing the same conversion twice, I thought it would be best to do this conversion ...
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Set device when using gst-launch alsasrc
As part of my Sphinx setup, I listen to my input device like this:
gst-launch alsasrc
(Well, the actual command is this: alsasrc ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! vader name=vad auto-threshold=true ...
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Alsa/PulseAudio mixing output from multiple processes
I wonder is it possible to rig alsa or/and pulseaudio so that audio output to
left stereo channel will come form one process and to the right channel from another process?
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Getting an ALSA program (ChucK) to work with Pulseaudio?
Moving a previous answer to this topic; formulated as a question, it would be:
I'm using ChucK, in particular chuck.alsa, to implement a Command line multitrack audio looper for Linux.
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Multiple instances of pulseaudio
I tried out VMware and ended up uninstalling it. Ever since I've been encountering a problem where my audio doesn't work when I log in. When I run ps aux|grep pulse, I see that there are two instances ...
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pulseaudio: delay app's output by time amount
I have one app where the audio is ahead of the video, so I'd like to delay the audio for half a second. I'm currently redirecting the app's audio to a pulseaudio null module, and then using parec to ...
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Strange sound behavior
First of all, sorry for the tittle. English isn't my native language, and I can't find a word to describe the strange behavior I'm getting here.
In the most simple explanation, is like sound keeps ...
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set sink index in pulseaudio
Is there some configuration option to specify that X device should always grab sink index Y? Much like you can force a specific sound card driver to have a specific card index in alsa?
Failing that, ...
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Pulse audio error and strange noise when using VLC on Wheezy
I am trying to play audio files on my Raspberry pi using VLC, but I am getting a "Pulse audio output error" and the song has a huge amount of random noise.
Here is a little video that shows what I am ...
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How to choose the user that has sound?
I wanted to know if there's any way in pulseaudio to decide, each time I switch virtual terminals, if the current user should get control of the sound or if another user should keep it.
We have two ...
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no sound with an USB Microphone and pulseaudio
I connected my USB Microphone to my Computer, but i cant get it to work.
Pulseaudio recognizes the device, and i can see and edit it with pavucontrol in the Input Devices section. I also can select ...
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Recording both internal audio and microphone via PulseAudio [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What are some specific audio / sound card / driver setups that still allow you to “record what you hear”?
I'm looking to get a sane audio recording set up that allows me ...
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Is there server based html5 widget that will allow me to stream pulseaudio audio to a browser?
I have a Web based VPN running at home that I access from work and Pandora works pretty well since it's all HTML5, but other sites like Youtube and flash based media does not work since my VPN can't ...
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AC3 & DTS Output Produces Buzzing/Noise Using a52 ALSA Plugin in Pulseaudio
Note: I hope this is the right site to ask it on, as I'm using ubuntu 12.04 64bit but assumably this is a general linux/alsa configuration question.
I've followed the guide at ...
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List all ALSA devices
I'm using PulseAudio on my system, and I followed the instructions for adding a monitor device as per the PulseAudio wiki. The monitor device itself works and registers/functions properly in apps like ...
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Alsamixer/amixer behavior changed after installing pulseaudio
Alsamixer and amixer were able to control a lot of things, Master, Headphone, PCM, Speaker, etc. After installing pulseaudio, there is only Master in alsamixer, 'Master',0 and 'Capture',0 in amixer.
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Ubuntu to Debian, pulseaudio works differently
Simple case: one application and one output device. I'm also using pavucontrol.
In Ubuntu, I could change the volume of the application or the output device without affecting the other's volume. ...
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Getting mikmod to work on 64 bit fedora 17
Does anyone know how to get mikmod to output audio on a 64bit Fedora 17 install?
My system is currently using pulse audio to do output(I think, the entire audio thing on Linux is rather confusing).
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Debian no lib32asound2-plugins=1.0.25
I compiled git wine 1.5.6 and the sound is not working correctly.
winecfg gives a message:
ALSA lib ../../pulse/pcm_pulse.c:995:(_snd_pcm_pulse_open) Unknown field handle_underrun
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PulseAudio Not Working after jackd uninstall
I was messing around with qtractor and jackd, but decided I didn't want to use it. I then uninstalled them with
apt-get uninstall qtractor jackd jackd2
apt-get autoremove
Now, no program (I've ...
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Can't set pulse audio as KDE default
I am running Arch Linux and KDE4. I installed the pulseaudio deamon on a remote machine with an external soundcard. From the local machine's terminal I can stream audio to that machine without any ...
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Pulseaudio Daemon Startup Failed
When running startx on Arch Linux, the error:
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
is returned.
Is there any way to fix this error?
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Install pulseaudio but don't use it?
I have my computer set up exactly how I want it, no pulseaudio and everything is working great. Unfortunately, there is a piece of software I'd like to use (cockatrice, a M:tG client) that requires ...
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xbindkeys escape quotes
How can I escape quotes in .xbindkeysrc commands? Neither of those work.
"pacmd dump|awk --non-decimal-data '$1~/set-sink-volume/{system ("pacmd "$1" "$2" "$3+2500)}'"
"pacmd dump|awk ...
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Pulseaudio is no longer working in Debian Squeeze: 'Failed to open module “module-combine-sink”: file not found'
I'm having a problem with pulseaudio. My machine crashed, and when I rebooted and ran pavucontrol, I got a "Connection Failed: Connection refused" dialog.
When I run pulseaudio --log-level=info ...
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Centralized PulseAudio setup
I want to do a setup, so that all my computers and TV use one audio system. Like this:
Where media server is connected to acoustics and TV is connected through sound-card input and other systems ...
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Does Linux support audio output via USB?
Several small integrated amplifiers exist with a USB input line.
The ones I have seen so far ship with Windows and OS X drivers.
Does Linux support audio output via USB out-of-the-box?
Update
It ...
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Improve priority of mplayer-pulseaudio-Xorg combination
I'm often having mplayer running on the side (e.g. watching television). However, this occasionally doesn't run too smoothly (granted, the CPU and GPU are also a bit weak).
I've already running ...
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Pavucontrol “detects” plugging the external microphone in and out, but nothing else
I am remotely debugging a sound system. Until they can test with another microphone, I wonder: Apart from the fact that the microphone is broken or muted, is there anything that could explain why ...
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How to kill TV like static noise in my Linux microphone?
I was capturing audio using alsa/pulse, or even without any microphone. But always i have this sample static noise.
Similar to those (you can hear the exact noise what i have now):
Sample 1
Sample ...
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Headphones don't “isolate” speakers
I have bought some new 2.1 speakers but I have an issue. When I plug in the headphones the sound continues to play from the speakers (in a lower volume though). I re-ran alsaconf but I couldn't solve ...
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arch linux - Pulse audio plays too fast
i have a problem that all my audio playback is too fast. I have found this: bbs.archlinux.org but i dont know where to disable the multirate locking and decreas the multitrack internal clock ...
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Is it possible to route different applications to different audio outputs with Pulse Audio?
Is it possible to route different applications to different audio outputs with Pulse Audio? I'd like my music to be played on my Stereo, but I'd like sound alerts to be played on my notebook speakers. ...
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How can I allow multiple sounds in pulseaudio?
I am listening to online radio (flash) but if I start off another video clip locally or remotely, the video won't play until I either change the audio output of the clip to non-pulseaudio or close the ...
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Streaming audio from windows to linux using PulseAudio
I have Linux box with Ubuntu + PulseAudio network server installed. I can stream audio from my laptop (with Linux installed too) to the box over local network.
I've recently installed Windows 7 into ...
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Linux Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 - microphone issues
I got a Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, the cam itself is working as it honors the UVC spec.
This fancy WebCam has a integrated mic which worked some time before but now, it does no more. (Note: I use ...
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Changing default audio device in Pulseaudio
I would like to use HDMI on my graphic card for audio output. ALSA shows it as a card with 4 devices and I can get sound through one of them (the other three are different channels, perhaps? I have ...
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Audio delay problem with ffmpeg and parec
I need to record desktop audio and video in an automated way. So I wrote a small multithreaded python script which basically does the following steps:
# 1.) Grab desktop audio
AUDIO_SRC=`LANG=c ...
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pulseaudio, external usb soundcard too low volume [closed]
The jack plug on my built-in sound card in my notebook doesn't work so I have to use an external one via a USB port.
Since I bought it I only used Windows and it worked fine, but when yesterday I ...
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Recording audio playback in Windows with PulseAudio?
I would like to record the playback audio of my computer using software such as Audacity. Unfortunately, my audio card software does not come with a stereo mix input, and after reading these two ...
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How to get simultaneous sound (from pulseadio) on two outputs (analog and digital) of the same sound card?
How to configure pulseaudio to play sounds simultaneously on digital and analog output of single sound card?
My system is OpenSuse 11.4 (with all updates installed). Command "aplay -l" returns:
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plug and play ExpressCard audio card on Ubuntu (how to avoid rebooting)
I got echo indigo djx expresscard as an audio card.
I use Ubuntu 10.10.
if I insert the card and reboot. it works.
if I just insert the card, it doesn't make sound. the blue led is on. I tried ...
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Using pulseaudio with mpd: libpulse not found
I'm trying to build and install mpd to work with pulse audio, so I'm running:
./configure --enable-pulse
but the last lines read -
checking for PULSE... no
configure: error: PulseAudio output ...
