Bug#739100: pulseaudio: Default to using all outputs

[Felipe Sateler]

Hi Matthias,

On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 09:25:38PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 4.0-6+b1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> People usually have multiple sound outputs these days (e.g., both a sound
> card and HDMI); complaints that no sound is playing out-of-the-box are
> frequent.
> 
> If PA would default to just plaing on all local outputs, this problem would
> be solved; if that is not what the user wants, temporary hardware
> workarounds (i.e. turn down the "hardware" volume knob on one of the
> outputs) are easier than the other way round.

This is a reasonable suggestion. 

I suppose the solution would be to use module-combine-sink, but it is
apparently very cpu intensive, so I'm not sure it is good as a default.

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index11h3

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler