Re: Multiple Sound Cards

[Cyrus V. <cy...@mi...>]

I am using this in vlc:

vlc --aout alsa --alsa-audio-device hw:1,0 ./Downloads/Animal\ House.avi





On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Cyrus Vafadari <cy...@mi...> wrote:

> So when I was a child, my father had built an analogue switch-box to switch
> which rooms the CD player would play to.
>
> I'm trying to make a digital "switchbox" inspired by my dad's, so on my
> Android I will be able to tell a media player (via socket, or maybe http)
> which rooms' speakers should be playing. It shouldn't be too hard from there
> to open two different instances on two different ports, and have one song
> playing in the bedroom while another song plays in the living room, from the
> same computer w two graphics cards.
>
> It seems that mplayer might have alsa-hardware specification option, and
> VLC might have both RC control and audio-output specification.
>
> I just really liked cmus for its light-weight and commandline.
>
> I will give a look at the PA API. Is the cmus sourcecode available and open
> source?
>
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>
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Johannes Weißl <ja...@mo...> wrote:
>
>> Hello Cyrus,
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:11:31AM -0400, Cyrus Vafadari wrote:
>> > I just started developing on cmus --- great socket interface.
>>
>> Great! What are you working on?
>>
>> > I wanted to know if there's a way to specify an output device (specific
>> > sound card's name or USB address) directly from commandline?
>> >
>> > I am running Ubuntu 10.04, and the best I can find right now is to set
>> the
>> > output module to be ALSA or PulseAudio, but I can't figure out how to
>> > specify the sound card when cmus initializes or when a song starts.
>>
>> I don't think that this is supposed to be the job of the audio player
>> with PulseAudio. It might be possible somehow, but you would need to
>> code that into cmus (using the PA API).
>> You can change the soundcard using the various PA configuration tools
>> (e.g. in gnome3, `gnome-control-center sound`).
>>
>>
>> Johannes
>>
>>
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