Questions tagged [pulse-audio]
PulseAudio is a free cross-platform network sound server.
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Enable pulseaudio equalizer only for bluetooth headsets
I'm using pulseaudio with the LADSPA equalizer. I want to enable the equalizer only when my bluetooth headset is connected. The behaviour at the moment is that when I disconnect the headset, the ...
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Pulseaudio high CPU usage
Is it normal that the pulseaudio process has sometimes a CPU usage of ~40%, even without playing audio? The process seems to run in realtime-priority, is that the cause of the problem?
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PulseAudio cannot open PCM device
I have an IMX6Q based board and want to game with PulseAudio.
My board has three sound devices:
# aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: tlv320aic3xaudi [tlv320aic3x-audio], ...
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pulseaudio: how to set the "configured latency" of a module-tunnel-sink-new
I have a setup at home with a local pulseaudio (the movie player) connecting through module-tunnel-sink-new to a remote pulseaudio server (the speaker). I'd like to lower the latency of this tunnel (...
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Set Bluetooth audio device to always use AD2P on Linux
I have a bluetooth speaker that works perfectly on my Arch Linux, but whenever I connect it's in HSV and I must manually set the protocol to A2DP.
How can I make it always use AD2P by default on ...
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5.1 Surround sound will not keep its configuration
in pavucontrol I have my output set to Digital Surround 5.1(IEC958/AC3)
When I open a video with VLC (my preferred option) OR GNOME Media player I hear no sound.
VLC is configured to use pulseaudio ...
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How do I enable a user account I sudo-ed into to play audio?
So I login to another's user account using the following command:
sudo -u bash
I use the following command to test sound from that account:
[winejail@localhost ~]$ play test.mp3
I get the errors ...
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What could be causing static on HDMI Audio with Pulseaudio
Using Yocto Hardknott release, I am running Pulseaudio version 14.2 on the kernel version 5.10.72.
I use the module-combine-sink to stream audio to both Lineout and HDMI simultaneously.
About 50% of ...
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Really loud sound input on PopOS 22.04 on an old Positivo Sim+ laptop
My laptop (Positivo Sim+) is really old, but I never complained about audio input quality when I used Linux. Some BSODs later and a miraculous fix, I got my laptop again and installed Linux on it ...
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Pulseaudio module-remap-source add 2 seconds latency
I am facing issue which the module-remap-source will auto add 2 seconds latency to a sink.
I used module-null-sink create a sink and use the remap to create a virtual source which use the sink as ...
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Ffmpeg: Choppy audio when streaming through RTP. Audio and Video sync issues
I am trying to stream video and audio through two separate RTP channels and then retrieve and play them on a client through webRTC and play them in sync. I am able to retrieve the packets on a webRTC ...
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Kubuntu 18.04 KDE Plasma Headset Microphone marked as "unplugged" until manually selected
When connecting a headset with a combined audio+microphone 4 pole connector to my laptop (XPS 15 9570), I cannot get KDE to automatically switch to the headset microphone. When connecting the headset, ...
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Bluetooth headset auto connect with PulseAudio
Lubuntu 18.04.4 on acer c720
PulseAudio does not do automatic switch to either of my bluetooth headsets when I switch them on.
My ~/.config/pulse/default.pa contains the lines
### Use hot-plugged ...
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Any way to force Firefox to recognize my microphone without restarting it?
Whenever I restart pulseaudio, Firefox stops detecting my microphone and will remain that way until I also restart it, which I normally hate doing because it interrupts my flow.
Is there a way to ...
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Latency when playing audio over bluetooth
I'm trying to solve the same problem described here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/145935/get-rid-of-0-5s-latency-when-playing-audio-over-bluetooth-with-a2dp. To lower the latency of audio when ...
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Linux no sound on headphone jack
I am unable to get sound out of the headphone jack on my laptop while the speakers work properly, I`m running this;
HP Spectre X360 (13-w010nd x360)
Linux Lite 4.0 (based on Ubuntu 18 LTS)
Im not ...
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Getting PulseAudio to automatically use the default remote sink when waking up
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 and I set PulseAudio (PA) on a remote machine on LAN to be the sink of my PC.
This works pretty well. However, if I suspend my PC and then wake it up (some hours later), the ...
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Linux - create virtual microphone and speakers
I am trying to create virtual speakers and virtual microphone on a Ubuntu docker.
I am running a process that needs to capture the PC audio (virtual speakers)
and play audio (from file) to a virtual ...
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HFP/HSP profile in linux
I have Ubuntu 16.04 and already installed BlueZ 5.37, PulseAudio 10.0, and ofono 1.20 (clone from github).
And I need to use phone like modem for transmitting my phone calls to computer. I paired my ...
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redirect sound over x11 session by pulse-audio
I am trying pass over X11 session.we can implement with pulse audio.I Google and i tried many configuration.still iam not able to redirect sound over X session.Any one can help me out with proper ...
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How to eliminate a whirring noise in Linux Yocto?
I am working with an Intel Edison board that has Linux Yocto. I have this issue of whirring noise when I try to record voice with a microphone. My microphone works fine with Windows. I tried to search ...
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PulseAudio RTP, how do I unmute the mic?
We have set up an RTP connection between two Ubuntu machines, and are attempting to send audio from a headset mic from one computer to the other. Computer A is the sender, B the receiver. When the ...
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Separate channels with pulseaudio
I have a java voip aplication, jitsi, that uses pulseaudio for sound.
Id like to run two instances of them at the same time, and make the sound from one go to the right channel, and from the other ...
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Jack audio not working properly with cadence
I have tried to set up the audio on my Debian linux computer in order that I can use ardour and get sound from/to that, and still be able to watch youtube videos etc. on Firefox. I have installed ...
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How to get headset plugged by default in pulseaudio
Whenever I plug my usb headset pulseaudio, detected as "unplugged", it's not a critical issue, but it's annoying have to enable by hand.
So how can I make for headset automatically is detected "...
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How do I figure out which driver is making my headset work?
I have just downgraded from Debian to Debian Jessie. Before the switch, my Logitech G930 headset would connect correctly as both an input device and output device (although the output device only has ...
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Sound distortion in PulseAudio on Gentoo
I'm running Gentoo Linux on an amd64-powered PC. My soundcard is Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA). I'm also using PulseAudio. The problem is that sound frequently goes ...
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Sound stops after unplug the headphones in Fedora Linux
I've a Dell XPS M1530 with Fedora 17 installed. The problem has to do with sound; when I start the system is works fine, when I plug the headphones it also runs just fine, but when I unplug the ...
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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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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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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 https://help.ubuntu.com/...
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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 pactl ...
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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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using Ubuntu 10.10 I want my speakers and head phones as separate devices
I would like it if I could set my rear speaker jack, not surround sound rear, to be used as the system default only. I want the head phones, that plug into the front of my PC, to be silent, unless I ...
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Route two audio inputs into one
I need to use two inputs (microphone and virtual monitor) and create one input from it, in order to use one single input in discord. Currently using Arch Linux and pulseaudio.
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How do I enable audio in a xrdp session
I'm connecting to a remote device running ubuntu 22.04 + kde + xrdp.
My understanding is that, to get audio forwarded through rdp, I need to install a pulseaudio plugin for xrdp. So far I've tried:
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How to use pipewire with puppeter
I was using PulseAudio to redirect Puppeteer audio to a virtual audio sink, but I have encountered some issues. Now I want to switch to PipeWire instead.
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Uninstalling pulseaudio removed a bunch of things that I don't know how to re-install
The title says it all; I was debugging problems with pulseaudio after I had some audio issues. One of the suggestions I encountered was to "reinstall pulse", and so naively I simply did sudo ...
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No sound issue in Zorin OS 16.2
I've installed Zorin OS to try it out because it's based on Ubuntu and I like the interface and other things in it but I have a problem. My sound card is recognized by Alsa and activated but I have no ...
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How to connect bluetooth input to Hifiberry using PulseAudio
I connected 2 conventional speakers to a Raspberry Pi 3 using the HiFiBerry AMP2. This works fine with Volumio. Now I want to take it one step further: instead of using Volumio I want to use the ...
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Buffer xrun in Alsa while ffmpeg streaming from certain sources
I am broadcasting the audio of my desktop PC (client here onwards) using the Pulseaudio RTP module:
load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp_2_camilla channels=2 format=S16BE rate=96000 ...
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Delay microphone input for several seconds
Using sox, I am able to record 10 seconds of mono-channel audio input:
rec -c 1 "/data/wav/${EPOCHSECONDS}.wav" trim 0 10
This works perfectly fine. However, I want the recording to contain ...
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Zoom.us: increase FPS when sharing my screen
TL-DR: How can I make sure that zoom share my screen with FPS as high as possible?
I need to share some animated slides (some people will join physically, others remotely), where the animation helps ...
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How to output to a virtual sink from Zoom
I'd like to send audio to Zoom from a virtual sink monitor in pulseaudio.
I can see all the sinks/sources in my environment available in Zoom, apart from the one added via module-null-sink. I added it ...
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Capturing audio on a cloud VM (Debian)
I've followed a bunch of guides regarding ALSA, Pulseaudio, JACK, etc., but none have seemed to work. I'll be specific with what I'm trying to do. On a cloud-based Debian VM, I want to:
Open a stream ...
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how to use alsa device hw:0 on xubuntu
I have an audio processing sw designed to use alsa's hw:0 device. On my xubuntu machine I get the same error as this command line:
$ aplay -D hw:0 440.wav
aplay: main:830: audio open error: Device or ...
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Audio not playing in an application with setreuid() & setgid(), but works with sudo -u command
I have a Arch Linux system with alsa and pulseaudio configured. alsa is set to use pulseaudio default device. Pulseaudio is rumming with tcp module enabled on 127.0.0.1 and anonymous set to true. The ...
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Change Pulseaudio Log Priority
Hows it goin? I've been dealing with Pulseaudio logs using serious CPU 30-40% at idle the most demanding process running. its /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal I've googled and ...
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Tried to run pulseaudio
When I was trying to do this It got me an error on running pactl list | grep Name command.
I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with linux deploy and LXDE desktop.
Error:
shared memfd open() failed: Function ...
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Is there a way to improve sound quality in Linux?
Total noob here, I did do some research before posting this question here, been using Linux since long and not satisfied by the audio quality that the Windows Counterpart provides (proprietary Dolby ...