1 PulseAudio <--> ALSA plugins

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        3 

        4 This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio

        5 sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record

        6 sound across a network.

        7 

        8 There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control. A

        9 typical configuration will look like:

       10 

       11     pcm.pulse {

       12         type pulse

       13     }

       14 

       15     ctl.pulse {

       16         type pulse

       17     }

       18 

       19 Put the above in ~/.asoundrc, or /etc/asound.conf, and use "pulse" as device

       20 in your ALSA applications. For example:

       21 

       22     % aplay -Dpulse foo.wav

       23     % amixer -Dpulse

       24 

       25 PulseAudio will accept more or less any format you throw at it. So a plug

       26 wrapper is unnecessary. Mixing is also handled so dmix will only cause a

       27 performance hit without any gain.

       28 

       29 The plugins will respect your PulseAudio environment variables (like

       30 PULSE_SERVER), but you can override these in ALSA's configuration files.

       31 

       32 Both plugins accept the "server" parameter, specifying which PulseAudio server

       33 to contact. Both also accept the "device" parameter, which indicate which

       34 source and sink to use.

       35 

       36 The mixer control plugin also accepts the parameters "source" and "sink" for

       37 when you need to specify a sink/source combination with different names. If

       38 you need to do this with PCM:s then specify two PCM:s with different "device".

       39 

       40 If you do not specify any source and/or sink, then the server's defaults will

       41 be used.