In and output streams are unmanageable

[iqualfragile]

It seems to be impossible to move audio in and output streams via pavucontrol. When you try it just does not do anything (or maybe it switches back instantly).

[ghost]

What are you trying to do here? If it's simple audio i/o device selection you can do that in toxic by using: /sdev <in/out> <selection> where selection is one of the valid values shown when using /lsdev <in/out>. Currently utox uses the same i/o method (openal) as toxic does, but IIRC is not able to choose devices.

[iqualfragile]

Yes, that is not what i am talking about. I want to be able to manage which in and output is used via pulseaudio, just like i can manage any other program via pulseaudio. Your current solution has some drawbacks:

1. At least on my machine it does not show multiple ouput devices, just one, (OpenAL Soft) which seems to just use the first possible output device.
2. Its impossible to change in/output during the call.
3. Its impossible to manage sound using the sound management tool my whole system uses.

[iqualfragile]

woop, accidentally closed

[ghost]

1. I'm not sure how openal deals with this, but will look into it
2. You can change devices during call now.
3. That figures since toxic has it's own sound management, at least for selecting i/o

I'll try and make something more fitting to your needs, if I get to have time to do so.

[iqualfragile]

using pulseaudio would have quite some advantages, besides better linux desktop integration, it provides an echo cancellation module, too

[haasn]

+1 on providing a clean way to just open a pulseaudio stream in both directions; and having PulseAudio take care of mapping that to devices or whatever.

I don't want to do device selection in my client, I want to do it in my mixer.

[israuor]

I've got the same issue here.. cannot change in pulseaudio.. would like all toxic sound on my usb headset.. cannot change it in pulse audio .. and /lsdev out shows me also only OPenAL soft :-(

[dubslow]

The thing is most Tox clients have so far been written to be cross platform, including Toxic; the best way to do that is to use OpenAL, since integrating with each platform's sound system would be a lot of work for each platform.

Maybe SomeDay™ there'll be platform specific clients...

[israuor]

I have no problems in qtox ... audio works fine my usb headset . input and output.

[israuor]

found the really simple solution for that problem...in pavucontrol go to output devices and select set as fallback on your USB headset.. THEN start toxic... audio is on USB headset now. awesome

[JFreegman]

Closing due to inactivity