I'm running a Centos 7 desktop with gnome, although similar issues regularly come up with Arch and other distros. When I checked my cpu usage via top, pulseaudio was using nearly 20% cpu. I hunted ...

How do you listen to changes in volume on the Master channel on the default sound card? I'd like to be notified through dbus or a callback or something that the volume has changed. I have tried lo...

I've setup a systemd service file to perform some pactl operations at system startup for a test process. While the commands work fine when performed from a terminal I always get "pa_context_connect...

While screen-recording using the below ffmpeg options I consistently get audio ahead of video, delay is in the order of few seconds ffmpeg cmd: ffmpeg -y -f x11grab -thread_queue_size 1024 -draw_mo...

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 and i3wm connected via Thunderbolt to a dock and a webcam. I want that the default pulse audio sink is set to the laptops internal sound card. Thus I have se...

I'm trying to set up a Docker container with Selenium that takes a recording of the browser with system audio using ffmpeg. I've got video working using Xvfb. Unfortunately, on the audio side, it s...

This question is inspired by Can you run GUI apps in a docker container?. The basic idea is to run apps with audio and ui (vlc, firefox, skype, ...) I was searching for docker containers using pu...

My overall aim is to restart pulseaudio for a specific user via ansible (so if you have a better idea how to do this, I am open to hear it :) ) I want to run the following command as the user myus...

So the question is, How can I set the default source? How can I list the current default source? Details I have 4 sound input sources on my linux device. Here is the result of pactl list sourc...

The output of both pactl list sink-inputs and pacmd list-sink-inputs contains a Properties section: Properties: media.name = "ALSA Playback" application.name = "ALSA plug-in [snapclient]" nativ...

I'm trying to build a simple server that basically: opens a webpage with a puppeteer instance. records the webpage and save the video file. I was able to implement this with puppeteer-stream and ...

As much as it matters my scenario is developing an accessibility application not any kind of malicious eavesdropping, whereas also within this scenario there are various research and development im...

I want pulseaudio (remote instance) to push audio sent to the primary alsa device straight to RTP over the internet so that I could listen to it on VLC on my home computer. in my /etc/pulse/defaul...

I'm trying to play a WAV audio file with Qt (QSound, QSoundeffect) on an ARM based Atmel board (sama5d31ek). I've build the rootfs (and Qt SDK for cross-compiling) with Yocto/poky. When playing wi...

Cannot start android emulator on AWS linux .. Getting this exception : "android-sdk/emulator/qemu/linux-x86_64/qemu-system-x86_64: error while loading shared libraries: libpulse.so.0: cannot op...

I have a ubuntu install with pulseaudio default installed. When pulseaudio is running this works: aplay -D hw:2,7 /usr/share/xbmc/sounds/Bursting\ Bubbles/nav.wav But when no pulseaudio daemon is ...

I have Ubuntu 16.04 and already installed BlueZ 5.37, PulseAudio 10.0, and ofono 1.20 (clone from github). And I need to use phone like modem for transmitting my phone calls to computer. I ...

I know it's possible by using pulse audio on a Linux host system But paprefs is built for linux not mac.

I'm working on a mobile app for Maemo/MeeGo and Maemo uses PulseAudio. I want to play a mp3 to caller (and cancel the mic when doing it, and not to listen caller, everything should be done on backg...

This doesn't seem to work at all: cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp #from wikipedia.org Is it because of pulseaudio? or I need to do some settings?

Ok, so I installed pyaudio from the package python-pyaudio using apt-get , now when I Import and Invoke as follows: Python 2.7.3 (default, Sep 26 2012, 21:53:58) [GCC 4.7.2] on linux2 Type "help"...

I am using my gentoo as host os for kvm with vga passthrough for playing on windows, but I have problem with sound, it is not good quality, I hear something like crackles in sound. I am using pulse...

I'm trying to get a D-Bus signal handler to be called whenever the state of a sink changes in PulseAudio (e.g. becomes inactive). Unfortunately, it isn't being called and I frankly am not sure why....

A clear explanation seems to be missing in the PulseAudio documentation, and I cannot find any simple examples.

Good day, I have been debating some details with a colleague about ALSA vs PulseAudio, and need some help coming to a conclusion with it. It's to my understanding that ALSA is relatively low-level...