If you decide you no longer like PulseAudio and would like to disable it: Remove the added lines to /etc/nf If /etc/nf did not exist when you installed PulseAudio, you may remove /etc/nf entirely.Īfter this, you may remove all of the installed PulseAudio packages. One of the most notable new features of PulseAudio is the ability to change the volume of applications interdependently, this can be accessed to by the program pavucontrol (you may want to add a launcher for it to your panel).
Next go into System -> Preferences -> Sound and make sure that Enable Software Sound Mixing is checked. Leave the other options alone for now, unless you want to loop outgoing streams through the local speakers. This allows sending multicast streams (One source sends packets, all others may receive them simultaneously) Checkmark Enable Multicast/RTP Sender.
This allows receiving multicast streams from other systems on your LAN.
Normally on Ubuntu 7.10, this file will not exist, so we're creating it. This will open /etc/nf in a Text Editor as the root user. Now, type the following: gksudo gedit /etc/nf
This will install the ALSA Pulse plugin, the PulseAudio daemons and the PulseAudio tools. Type the following: sudo apt-get install libasound2-plugins "pulseaudio-*" paman padevchooser paprefs pavucontrol pavumeter
Here's how to install it, as of Dec-08-2007, on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10, with PulseAudio 0.9.6 Ubuntu 8.04 and higher installs PulseAudio by default and no extra configuration is needed. This section only applies to old, unsupported versions of Ubuntu. The problems seems to be related to the pulse plugin in ALSA, and the special ways these apps uses ALSA.Ĭurrently there are three patches for "pulse" that probably can solve the problems with Wine combined with ALSA/pulse.
These problems should not occur in Flash v. The sound is supposed to go through the "pulse" plugin in ALSA, that passes it to PulseAudio, where it get mixed with all other sound, and passed on to a audio interface. 9 and earlier, Wine and Skype when these applications use the ALSA protocol. There may be problems with getting sound from Adobe Flash v. PulseAudio is the standard sound server in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04. Things like transferring the audio to a different machine, changing the sample format or channel count and mixing several sounds into one are easily achieved using a sound server. It allows you to do advanced operations on your sound data as it passes between your application and your hardware. A sound server is basically a proxy for your sound applications. PulseAudio is a sound server for POSIX and Win32 systems.