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Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020) by SXX on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @10:34AM (#31167963)
I personally used advanced PulseAudio features all the time by playing different audio in headphones and speakers, but it's still rarely used feature compared to audio volume control.

One of neatest things I did on Linux is playback of multiple audio streams while watching series when using VLC. It's very cool when you have some international group of friends together and e.g someone prefer to watch in German, someone in English and then someone in some other language.

So basically 3 people can connect their headphones to Linux PC and then everyone listen to their preferable language.

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Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020) by cyberpunk on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:32AM (#31168765)
How do you rig all that stuff up? Commandline or is there a pretty gui for doing it?
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Re:Things I can’t do on macOS which I can do on Ubuntu (2020) by vetinari on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @01:01PM (#31169982)
Getting VLC to output multiple tracks simultaneously (or more correctly, all tracks) is via command line parameters (--sout-all --sout \#display).

Mapping the streams to specific devices can be done via clicky GUI in pavucontrol.

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