[yocto] pulseaudio madness

[Burton, Ross]

Hi Gary,

On 5 February 2013 12:44, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> I have a multi-media application/system (built with Poky/Yocto of course)
> that is currently using ALSA for the sound.  This works great but now
> I'd like to be able to share some of the sound resources, in particular
> the audio output (speakers).  To satisfy this, I looked at pulseaudio,
> but I'm overwhelmed by the package choices (there are 120 packages),
> not to mention what to do about configuration.
>
> I don't see any examples (images, etc) that use pulseaudio.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations on what I might need to install,
> how to configure it, etc, to take over from my simple ALSA setup?

The top tip is the PulseAudio documentation on the web site, that
lists all the plugins and what they do.  The pulseaudio-server package
depends on all of the important plugins, so that gives you a working
PA setup once you've started it.

You might want to have a look at Guacamayo's use of PA, that uses it
and will automatically switch output when new speakers are plugged in
too.    https://github.com/Guacamayo

Ross