Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor...
by deathanatos on Thursday July 07, 2022 @02:03PM
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Yes to both. My laptop has HDMI & TRS out. AFAIK, the soundcard is not capable of emitting to both HDMI & the TRS port simultaneously, but it's also not something I've ever wanted to do, so I'll admit that the limit of my use case there.
(I'll use a bluetooth headphone, if I want audio while pushing something to HDMI. Though I could see using TRS headphones being a nice to have, and I honestly don't know how to configure that, or if it is even possible, since it's all represented as one card in PA.)
Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor...
by blooalien on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @08:16PM
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While I'm no fan of Pöttering, I can certainly understand wanting to maybe "ride off into the sunshine" when the vast majority of humanity these days is more willing to tear down their fellow humans than they are to suggest or help with any sort of actual solution to any given problem. Makes even trying feel more than a little pointless.
PA is ok if you use consumer software for consumer tasks. As soon as you go into the production side of things (or even do it live and/or for money) things can fall appart pretty quickly.
The vocal PA critics I know don't even complain about the way pulseaudio does things. They complain about the persistent problems this widely deployed piece of software still has after years in the field. And some of those problems are of conceptual nature.
I don't Pöttering really deserves the heat he gets (no dev would), but I sometimes wish that type of (usually male) programmer would just sometimes stay with the trouble and not ride of into the sunshine when things aren't a beautiful fresh sheet of white paper anymore, but a tangled mess.