Bug 78673

Summary:	Switch to Analog output while SPDIF wire is plugged
Product:	PulseAudio	Reporter:	Cristian Fadón <theangeltabris>
Component:	pavucontrol	Assignee:	pulseaudio-bugs
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:	pulseaudio-bugs
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	lennart
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Cristian Fadón 2014-05-13 19:58:33 UTC

I have both digital and analog speakers connected to the same machine.

Now SPDIF is the default output and I use analog (through alsa) by specifying it in an app (Clementine in my case).

But, I want to select analog as the global output and SPDIF only for VLC (VLC's part works ok).

But pulseadio (through Pavucontrol or Kmix) ignore my output choice while the SPDIF wire is plugged. I still get sound from the digital receiver when I test the sound, even when pavucontrol says "analog stereo output".

If I boot with the SPDIF wire unplugged, I can choose Analog output and it works.

Comment 1 Raymond 2014-05-15 09:19:06 UTC

post output of alsa-info.sh  and pactl list

usually most computers have no way to detect whether you plug spdif or not

for those notebook with headphone shared with optical output , is it possible to assume that optical output is not used when headphone is plugged

Comment 2 Tanu Kaskinen 2014-05-23 13:30:46 UTC

Cristian, could you add some note why you marked this bug invalid? Did you solve your problem?

Comment 3 Cristian Fadón 2014-05-23 14:11:30 UTC

Yes, it was a distro-related bug, not a pulseaudio bug. It's working ok now.

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