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| -rw-r--r-- | src/pulse/stream.h | 17 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/pulse/stream.h b/src/pulse/stream.h index 2e8e71a0..bc54a118 100644 --- a/src/pulse/stream.h +++ b/src/pulse/stream.h @@ -401,7 +401,22 @@ int pa_stream_is_suspended(pa_stream *s); * not, and negative on error. \since 0.9.11 */ int pa_stream_is_corked(pa_stream *s); -/** Connect the stream to a sink */ +/** Connect the stream to a sink. It is strongly recommended to pass + * NULL in both dev and volume and not to set either + * PA_STREAM_START_MUTED nor PA_STREAM_START_UNMUTED -- unless these + * options are directly dependant on user input or configuration. If + * you follow this rule then the sound server will have the full + * flexibility to choose the device, volume and mute status + * automatically, based on server-side policies, heuristics and stored + * information from previous uses. Also the server may choose to + * reconfigure audio devices to make other sinks/sources or + * capabilities available to be able to accept the stream. Before + * 0.9.20 it was not defined whether the 'volume' parameter was + * interpreted relative to the sink's current volume or treated as + * absolute device volume. Since 0.9.20 it is an absolute volume when + * the sink is in flat volume mode, and relative otherwise, thus + * making sure the volume passed here has always the same semantics as + * the volume passed to pa_context_set_sink_input_volume(). */ int pa_stream_connect_playback( pa_stream *s /**< The stream to connect to a sink */, const char *dev /**< Name of the sink to connect to, or NULL for default */ , |