March 11th, 2009
Profile switching in PulseAudio
I just noticed the super-awesome PulseAudio guys (Lennart and Colin and others) guys have set up profile switching for PulseAudio. The credit for this one seems to go to Colin – that’s his post on the topic. I ran pavucontrol just now and noticed the tab has showed up, for Fedora Rawhide users anyway. As a super extra added bonus, when you use it, nothing crashes, and it works! Finally, a vaguely sensible GUI for switching between the analog and digital output modes of my Chaintech AV-710. The previous method was, um, to create a custom ~/.asoundrc file, which you had to Google about for instructions on. Not optimal. So a big thanks to the PulseAudio guys for that.
One Response to “Profile switching in PulseAudio”
Thanks for your kind words Adam. In fiarness tho’ the profile switching support itself has been in PA for a while and it’s all Lennart’s work. I did hook up this capability to the GUI itself tho’ and find a couple of bugs that caused pavucontrol to crash when switching profiles! Anyway, I’m hopefully gonna make a few more improvements to the pavucontrol GUI in the not too distant future!
By coling March 12th, 2009 at 8:02 am