Questions tagged [pulse-audio]
PulseAudio is a free cross-platform network sound server.
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How to forward sound from a local audio input (USB from a digital piano) to a remote audio output (via a pulseaudio server)?
I have 2 PCs under Linux Debian (bullseye) :
"pc-piano" : where a digital piano is connected via USB, and which has no local audio output
"pc-desktop" : where my wireless ...
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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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how to make seprate streams with a loopback in pulseaudio
as the bot has asked ill redo this. i am currently wanting a seprate line in pipewire that contains 1 application going to obs so i can record certain things with music without capturing the music (or ...
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OBS studio won't record audio only
I wanted to record only audio with OBS Studio. So I have created a new scene and added just Audio Capture Device (ALSA). Then I clicked on the Start recording...button. It recorded both screen and ...
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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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Is there a way to control xfce-pulseaudio-plugin (pavucontrol) with command line?
Trying to setup media control shortcuts in Xfce (Play/Pause, Next track). I have xfce-pulseaudio-plugin which use pavucontrol. Is there a way to switch tracks via pavucontrol command line interface? ...
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What is the Pipewire alternative to the switch-on-port-available Pulseaudio module?
I just set up Pipewire on my system, but there is one thing that bugs me: when I turn off my external DAC, and then turn it back on, Pipewire will not reconnect to it. With Pulseaudio, this issue ...
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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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Mono audio output with pulseaudio and alsa on embedded system
I am running an embedded system using pulseaudio and alsa.
I need to downmix all audio inputs to a single mono output.
I have seen other answers that involve modifying /etc/pulse/default.pa like the ...
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I can't make my microphone work after switching to pipewire
I have just upgraded from kubuntu 22.04 to 22.10 , wich includes also pipewire as default.
Now the microphone is behaving funny. Sometimes it doesnt pick audio at all, sometimes it stutters like crazy,...
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Cannot get vlc to stream correctly through command line
I use the following command:
vlc -I qt myfile.mp4 #standard{access=http,mux=ts,dst="8080/stream"} :sout-all :sout-keep
and my error log is the following:
VLC media player 3.0.16 Vetinari (...
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audio is not working in kali linux and am not able to open pulseaudio
Audio is not working.
I downloaded Kali Linux using the WSL 2 GUI and am using it using remote desktop connection.
The audio is not working and I'm not able to open pulse audio mixer.
I have tried all ...
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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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Headphones not working on Ubuntu somtimes
So for work I got this nice laptop with Ubuntu running on it.
Now when I try to connect the wireless USB headset I got with it, I get nothing... sometimes.
I tried using the USB dongle a couple times. ...
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Yocto Bluetooth HFP not available
Currently i'm trying to get audio over the HFP. Yet somehow the headset_audio_gateway is not available. The goal is to use the Linux machine as a handsfree module. Like a carkit.
I connect my phone to ...
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Virtual audio sinks & settings gone after reboot
I need some help on an issue that gives me headaches.
I'm running a F36 distro (Nobara) and was trying to create some virtual sinks via pulseaudio.Just like this:
pactl load-module module-null-sink ...
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Cannot detect audio device when switching to user account
When I go to settings > sound, I only see dummy_output. It seems the system cannot detect the audio devices. However, I can play sounds from audio devices when I switch to an administrator account. ...
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Why is audio streaming harder than video streaming?
I have two separate Linux computers on the same LAN. One computer has speakers, the other computer has a monitor. To play a movie with video and sound I have two options:
Play the movie on the ...
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Volume issue with pulseaudio on Debian 11
I recently installed new Debian 11 on my desk, my audio devices are managed by pulseaudio and pavucontrol. I mainly use DragonFly red DAC to listen music or something else on Chromium. Everything is ...
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Errors running pulseeffects (doesn't launch)
I installed pulseeffects and for the first run it throw some warnings mostly about missing plugins:
$ pulseeffects
(pulseeffects:2004): pulseeffects-WARNING **: 14:44:54.611: compressor plugin was ...
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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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no soundcards found...for pulseaudio tunneling
Refers to my previous question
Use pulseaudio for remote ssh connection . I have finally got the tunnel established between my Mac OS and the Oracle instance. I input the wrong parameter in the ssh ...
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Use pulseaudio for remote ssh connection
I am trying to stream pulseaudio sound output over the cloud instance. In my previous question I could not get paprefs to work on Mac OS but it turned out it does not matter as I can set everything by ...
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Cannot install paprefs on mac os
I want to stream my microphone from my Mac OS to my Oracle cloud instance which is using Ubuntu 20. Maybe also backwards as well (stream container sound back to the local computer). I connect to the ...
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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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No Sound in Kali Linux 2021.4 on [ASUS TUF B560M Plus]
Hello I fresh installed Kali linux 2021.4 but it has no sound, [It was working on Windows]
However I tried some stuff suggested by community:
Added Following Lines in .bashrc
pulseaudio -D
clear
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Anything with an MPEG codec plays too fast on Ubuntu
I'm not sure when, why and how it changed, but at a certain moment video and mp3 files started to run faster than usual (witch chipmunk like speech).
I have a Radeon RX550 card which I use for HDMI ...
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How to convert a certain program's audio output to mic input
I have Program A and Program B
-I want Program A's Sound output to be received as a Microphone input
-I want Program B's Sound output to be received as a normal sound output
Is there a way i can do ...
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After Linux OS upgrade audio is 20% quieter - how to get back to previous level?
I just upgraded my OpenSUSE OS and the volume output is not as high as before. I would say it's 20% quieter compared to before the upgrade.
I'm guessing its a matter of selecting the right option for ...
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What is the PulseAudio virtual sink name for ALSA snd_pcm_open()
I loaded a PulseAudio module-null-sink, when I set it as system default output device, the ALSA snd_pcm_open(&pcm_handle, "default", SND_PCM_PLAYBACK, 0) can successfully open it. Now I ...
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Red Hat Linux Play Sound File From Service Account
I am trying to have my service account play a sound when a problem occurs, I have figured out how to get a script to run when I want to, but the problem is that the play command won't work. From the ...
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I'm on Linux and [application] isn't outputting any sound!!! I have my speakers connected, [other application] works fine, but not this one
HELP ME! There's no sound from [application], but [other application] is fine! My volume is up, and it worked before, but it's broken now! (This phrasing is satire, essentially if you're experiencing ...
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how to change volume on multi sound card system without affecting which app "plays" where
On my work pc there are 2 soundcards + hdmi. I use cinnamon desktop, but I think it will be the same elsewhere. The problem is, that I see "device settings" for selected device only. And the ...
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Only one side of my headphones works
The distro I'm using is Arch, and my headphones are Sony's WH-H910N model. These headphones are connected by a jack rather than using bluetooth, and they work properly with or without this jack on ...
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Accesssing, reading and writing other user's file and directory as my own
There are other answers like: centos - Linux: Create a user than can access other users' files - Super User, but they don't talk about accessing those files from GUI application. My question is more ...
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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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Understanding ffmpeg recording input types from devices
Using pactl, I get the following sinks:
pactl list sinks short
# 0 alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1f.3.analog-stereo module-alsa-card.c s16le 2ch 44100Hz SUSPENDED
Since there's but ...
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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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FFmpeg multi input and multi output
I have been trying to collect audios from different pulse sources and x11grab video for merging some of them together. Finally all will be pushed to AWS IVS
This is the html for pushing audios to ...
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Combining Selected Applications' Sound With Voice Into Virtual Microphone (Linux)
Sometimes I'll want to share music with friends via Skype, Discord, etc.
I don't want to share the full output of my sound card (which I can do by setting the corresponding monitor as the microphone), ...
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Pulseaudio loopback into headphones
I have headphones and a mic attached to my computer. My headphones are tight and block out external noise far too well, and so I find myself shouting at the mic.
Is there any way of setting up ...
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Why is pulseaudio device missing when using sudo over SSH?
I'm trying to run an audio visualization python script on my raspberry pi over SSH. The script uses pyaudio for the microphone input, which I understand uses pulseaudio under the hood. The script is ...
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How to stream 1 source to multiple sinks
In picture below, which is sound panel/applet, there are listed all my possible links and HDMI, no idea how that end up there. I'm interested in "Analog Output". There are 3 output profiles:
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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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Mono + Mic instead of stereo sound for Bluetooth headphones on Ubuntu
I recently switched from Windows to Ubuntu. My headphones either support stereo sound or mono sound with the microphone. So, I cant have a stereo and a microphone on at the same time. In windows, I ...
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My laptop microphone is auto muting and unmuting all the time
Suddenly my laptop microphone is auto muting and unmuting. I don't have any clue what's the problem. I'm using Arch Linux with KDE. This is so annoying to see microphone muted notification in the ...
