Re: [LAD] controlling access to the sound card

Thanks for your feedback. The system my application is going to run on
will not include PulseAudio, so I would have to do it with just ALSA and
the OS.

On 10-07-14 02:25 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 15:02 -0500, Jason Butler wrote:
>
>> I have three applications that want to use the sound card, two audio stream players, and a voip phone.
>> I want to set up linux so that if a call comes in on the phone the OS
>> will disconnect the audio players, give exclusive access to the voip
>> phone, and then when the phone is done reconnect the audio players to
>> the sound card.
>>
>> How can this be done?
>>
> Regarding to the German Wiki PulseAudio should be able to handle stuff
> like this. While PulseAudio is a PITA to many Linux audio production
> users, IIUC PulseAudio should help for needs as yours. Of course you
> have to code apps, resp. to use apps that were programmed for usage with
> PulseAudio.
>
> I've got no knowledge about this!!, but if PulseAudio shouldn't be able
> to handle this kind of things, than I wonder what the advantages of it
> should be.
>
> Unfortunately the Wiki on English isn't that informative as the German
> Wiki ... I anyway didn't read the complete German Wiki.
>
> - Ralf
>
>

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Received on Fri Jul 16 20:15:25 2010