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Offline Just17

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Re: Playtime with Pulse Audio
« Reply #45 on: December 30, 2012, 07:57:55 AM »
Time to add another bit of info here.

I am now running PA v3 from the repo, with an updated paprefs, but unfortunately Veromix is now not working due, I believe to some update. I expect it will be fixed in due course.

Anyway to get to the point of this post .....  Santa being nice to me, presented me with a new Logitech H800 headset.

This headset has both wireless and BlueTooth connectivity.

My experience to date with BT has been minimal - using a BT earpiece & MIC for phone mostly.

I paired the new headset with the PC, and a new entry appeared in the PA Vol Control Configuration panel for it.

It provided two options from its drop-down .....  Telephony Duplex (HSP/HFP) {mono}, and also High Fidelity Playback (A2DP) {stereo}.

Yeah!  High quality audio over BT without any messing at all!

It works beautifully.

The wireless part also works ....  just plug in the transmitter as per usual and the options are there as for previous wireless headset.

So .....  nothing really to report except BT is working well through PA ......  of course the bluetooth module does need to be installed  ;)

I must admit to being rather impressed that it required nothing other than pairing the device to have it work properly!

Happy New Year to all!

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This is a pic of what is connected today .....

1.  HDMI sound from my video card
2.  On board audio card
3.  New headset BT with high quality audio out selected
4.  Same headset using a wireless dongle which is similar to that used for the H760 headset
5.  My older wireless headset
6.  USB speakers

All devices are available simultaneously so different applications can output to different devices (except the new headset itself must be switched between BT & wireless of course).

Seems I like Logitech products  :D


« Last Edit: December 30, 2012, 08:13:10 AM by Just17 »
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Re: Playtime with Pulse Audio
« Reply #46 on: March 20, 2013, 06:31:42 PM »
I realised today that it is nearly 3 months since I posted in this thread.

No wonder really as I have nothing new to report.

PA continues to work well.

I don't recall mentioning PulseAudio Manager in previous posts so there!  It got a mention!  :D

It provides some useful information on your audio system and devices.

That's it I guess.  ;)

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Re: Playtime with Pulse Audio
« Reply #47 on: April 21, 2013, 07:17:53 PM »
I have been working on getting a recording application for PulseAudio done and have nearly completed the job, thankfully.

This is for use only if PulseAudio is installed and enabled.

It will record from any audio stream that PulseAudio is aware of (should be all of them). It will record audio source streams (from microphone for example) and audio sink streams (audio being sent to speakers).

It is a very simple affair ....  will record to mp3, wav flac or ogg.

Besides the facility to choose the device (and hence the sound stream going to or coming from it) to record there is a need only to set the output filename. There is nothing else to it.

The format is determined by the extension of the filename .....  so "a.mp3" records in mp3 format while "a.flac" records in flac format.

Told ye it was simple  :D

Here is a preview of how it looks ......



Latest version of the recording application



« Last Edit: Yesterday at 09:36:27 AM by Just17 »
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