Bug 413098

Summary:	Allow using multiple audio outputs simultaneously
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma-pa	Reporter:	Méven Car <meven29>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Rosca <nowrep>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, nicolas.fella, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Méven Car 2019-10-17 16:25:19 UTC

SUMMARY

Pulse audio can create combined audio output consisting in fact in other outputs to allow simultaneous use of the outputs.

Great to use the headphone through jack and bluetooth, or multiple bluetooth output even.

Very useful when traveling with someone to watch the same video for instance.

It would be great to use some UI in plasma-pa to enable this easily.

Ref:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules/#index11h3
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Simultaneous_HDMI_and_analog_output
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=118026

Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2020-11-10 00:38:46 UTC

We allow using that module to output to all sinks via Configure > "Add virtual output device for simultaneous output on all local sound cards".

We do not allow to specify a subset of devices to be combined though

Comment 2 Méven Car 2020-11-13 06:55:04 UTC

I guess I didn't find the checkbox when I looked for this, this has been implemented for years.