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- PulseAudio <--> ALSA plugins
- ============================
-
- This plugin allows any program that uses the ALSA API to access a PulseAudio
- sound daemon. In other words, native ALSA applications can play and record
- sound across a network.
-
- There are two plugins in the suite, one for PCM and one for mixer control. A
- typical configuration will look like:
-
- pcm.pulse {
- type pulse
- }
-
- ctl.pulse {
- type pulse
- }
-
- Put the above in ~/.asoundrc, or /etc/asound.conf, and use "pulse" as device
- in your ALSA applications. For example:
-
- % aplay -Dpulse foo.wav
- % amixer -Dpulse
-
- PulseAudio will accept more or less any format you throw at it. So a plug
- wrapper is unnecessary. Mixing is also handled so dmix will only cause a
- performance hit without any gain.
-
- The plugins will respect your PulseAudio environment variables (like
- PULSE_SERVER), but you can override these in ALSA's configuration files.
-
- Both plugins accept the "server" parameter, specifying which PulseAudio server
- to contact. Both also accept the "device" parameter, which indicate which
- source and sink to use.
-
- The mixer control plugin also accepts the parameters "source" and "sink" for
- when you need to specify a sink/source combination with different names. If
- you need to do this with PCM:s then specify two PCM:s with different "device".
-
- If you do not specify any source and/or sink, then the server's defaults will
- be used.
-