The module runs a thread that takes care of the timing and periodically generates samples and writes them to the connected source outputs. Timing info may be retrieved manually by application or automatically when the auto timing update flag is set for a stream. In this case, we get defective modularity. To deal with it, combine sink adjusts sample rate for every sink input, which performs resampling, which may be quite CPU intensive. A single card may have multiple device ports. PulseAudio automatically creates a sink monitor for every sink. Monika Situmorang — January 15, 2021 09:39. See ApplicationProperties wiki page and the Doxygen documentation with the full list of properties. Sample streams are based on the block queues. pause the stream. In addition to the core interface, PulseAudio modules can register custom server API extensions, that are also discoverable through the core. The local server creates a sink input for the stream. Buffers are rewound to overwrite unplayed samples. Such filter creates one virtual source or sink and one virtual source output or sink input connected to the master source or sink. The equalizer may be controlled via D-Bus. Otherwise, if the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR environment variable is set, the runtime directory path is set to "$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/pulse" instead (typically somewhere in "/run"). The pacmd tool uses the CLI protocol over a Unix domain socket. It’s possible to configure PulseAudio to provide single sink and source attached to dmix and dsnoop devices without creating sinks and sources for hardware ALSA devices. Click “Cancel Room” on the right-hand side of the screen. Updated 6 months ago. Currently, the “Game” category is mapped to the “game” role, and the “Telephony” category is mapped to the “phone” role. On rewind, the sink input moves the read pointer backward, so that the sink can re-read required amount of samples. The user wants to select a device either for a stream or for a category of streams. Most of the problems listed in this section are not trivial but may be resolved with a thoughtful refactoring. As any other sink, the null sink has an associated sink monitor, which can be used to read all data written to the sink. As a workaround, PulseAudio can artificially synthesize X11 media key events along with the cork or uncork request, as if the pause or play multimedia keyboard button was pressed. Various modules implement automatic actions based on some properties, like routing, volume setup, and autoloading filters. ALSA sink or tunnel sink). Usually used to stream music. The concrete meaning of PulseAudio card profile and device ports depends on whether the ALSA UCM is available for an ALSA card or not (see below). The sink input is removed or moved due to client disconnect, via the introspection API, or by an automatic rule. Every filter module is implemented from scratch. Used in some PulseAudio modules. The local server creates a sink input for the stream. AirPlay devices use mDNS and are discoverable via Zeroconf. The module arguments define the name and parameters of the object to create. Adjusts the filters requested via the stream properties. When configuring device manager, it’s clear that there are per-role device lists. PulseAudio has several backends that implement audio I/O and device management. PulseAudio implements LADSPA support as a filter sink. If adjust latency mode is enabled, tlength specifies desired size of the stream buffer plus the device buffer. For playback devices, subdevices are used to represent available slots for hardware mixing. Creates a source and sink for a Sun audio device (/dev/audio). This led me to dig into PulseAudio internals and eventually to this document. Every exported source or sink monitor includes an HTTP URL that should be used to read samples from PulseAudio. Together with its monitor, may be used as a source-output-to-sink-input adapter. When the zero-copy mode is enabled, memory is automatically allocated from the shared pool. It is usually used for event sounds. This is so to have the largest possible latency still meeting the requirements of all clients. The C API automatically sets the “application.process.binary” property of the client, which contains the name of the application executable. I’d like to thank my friends and colleagues Mikhail Baranov and Dmitriy Shilin who read early drafts of the document and provided a valuable feedback. ALSA provides numerous user space interfaces to interact with ALSA cards and devices and their properties. My reservation begins on the second Monday of April. When a stream is created or its properties are changed, adjusts the volume balance of the stream depending on its on-screen 2-D coordinated provided by the application. Automatically route and play audio from A2DP and HSP/HFP AG sources. Connect a playback application to a filter sink. UCM (Use Case Manager) interface implements high-level configuration presets on top of the Mixer interface. Buffers are rewound to apply the new volume immediately. One PulseAudio source and/or one PulseAudio sink is created for every PulseAudio card depending on the currently active card profile. It was introduced in 0.9.11 version and inspired by audio systems in Windows Vista and MacOS. Connect the parecord source output to the monitor of the null sink using the pavucontrol tool. For a regular main loop, polling may be performed between iterations. The decision, announced Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021 came two days after it said it was reviewing reservations in the area ahead of next week’s presidential inauguration and said it will bar any guests associated with hate groups or violent activity. There are three implementations of the mainloop API: a regular event loop (pa_mainloop), a threaded event loop (pa_threaded_mainloop), which runs an event loop in a separate thread, and a Glib event loop (pa_glib_mainloop), which runs an event loop on top of the Glib event loop. Overrides “filter.want”. ALSA cards often have multiple inputs and outputs. A shared ring buffer channel (pa_srbchannel) is a bidirectional byte stream on top of two ring buffers in the shared memory, two file descriptor-based semaphores (using POSIX pipe or Linux-specific eventfd), and an event loop. Text client streams, like the CLI and HTTP streams, are based on this channel. Under Manage Booking, select Cancel Reservation, then CANCEL THIS RESERVATION. At the high level, the inter-thread communication is done well. Every UCM modifier is mapped to a PulseAudio role. The communication between threads is done via messages. Although it’s possible to implement filters as LADSPA plugins, all filters available out of the box don’t use this possibility. PulseAudio uses two types of configuration files: If the user config directory contains .conf files, the system .conf files with the same name are ignored. PulseAudio is able to intercept XKB bell event and play a preconfigured sample from the sample cache. It has a modular architecture consisting of the main daemon and backends: osspd daemon creates and serves OSS devices using CUSE (Character Device in User Space). The tool loads several desktop-related modules, passing them the $DISPLAY and $SESSION_MANAGER environment variables. A table row defines from where to read the samples. ALSA interfaces represent this in the following way: an ALSA card contains separate ALSA devices for HDMI and analog audio, an ALSA device has separate pcm device entries in "/dev/snd" for playback and capture, an ALSA card has a control device entry in "/dev/snd" with various kcontrols allowing to determine what’s plugged in and configure input and output routing. To Cancel the reservation, Click on Cancel and this pop up will appear to confirm the cancellation. This sink acts as a proxy for a master sink, implementing performing a convolution with a prerecorded HRIR WAV file to emulate surround sound when using headphones. The user can switch the active device port of a source or sink at any time. Every object in the hierarchy is identified by a unique path. members - contain the kcontrol values; a kcontrol can have multiple members, but all of the same type, access attributes - determine various kcontrol access parameters. PulseAudio implements an extensible routing algorithm, which is spread across several modules. The user can enable encodings via pavucontrol GUI. In both cases, PulseAudio goal is to probe what inputs and outputs are available and map them to device ports somehow. A table column defines to where to write the samples. PulseAudio addresses these challenges by doing its own timer-based scheduling, also known as the glitch-free playback model. Client - An application connected to the PulseAudio server. Computes client properties from the desktop file of the application. Zero or multiple UCM devices may be active at the same time. The daemon creates a null sink for every discovered remote device, opens the sink monitor associated with it, reads samples from the monitor, performs necessary encoding, and sends samples to the remote device. Creates a filter source or sink that performs channel remapping on top of the master source or sink. The pacmd tool doesn’t work over the network or when the server is running in system mode and doesn’t support autospawn. The roles of the two connected HFP devices are: PulseAudio supports both roles. Represents a playback or capture ALSA device. Creates a card, source, and sink for a Bluetooth device. It provides an abstraction layer that combines all this stuff together in one place. They are part of MultiMedia Extensions introduced in Windows 95 and still supported in recent Windows versions (with some issues). Moves the stream or paired streams to the filter source or sink. Normally, the sink moves the read pointer forward, and the sink input moves the write pointer forward. Here are some practical examples of how PulseAudio features may be used on the desktop: Smart hotplug handling. Find the reservation you need to cancel Click the three dots menu and select Change or cancel to start the cancellation process If the check-in time is within 24 hours, the option to cancel online may not be available—you'll need to contact us . Most prepaid car hire bookings are non-refundable. Device buffer size is controlled by the source or sink implementation. The user registers descriptors and manually runs the loop iterations. When the user plugs in something using the analog jack on a sound card, that typically makes some port available and may also make another port unavailable. Virtual source or sink is not associated with an audio device. The following list gives an idea of the features implemented in PulseAudio. Connect the remote sink input to the sink using the pavucontrol tool on the remote server. PulseAudio may use Avahi (free Zeroconf implementation) or Bonjour (Apple Zeroconf implementation). “norm * 2”. High latency may be set for a stream automatically: If an application uses PulseAudio and didn’t specify the latency, PulseAudio automatically selects the default value, which is high, typically 2s. If TCP socket is used, and the auth-ip-acl option is set, and client’s IP address belongs to the address whitelist specified in this option, then the client is accepted. Since sender and receiver clocks are always slightly different, the receiver queue size is slowly drifting. AVEs are now being fitted with WiFi, free to all travellers in preferente class or those in turista who have signed up to Renfe's free +Renfe loyalty scheme. Client searches for a cookie in an environment variable, in the X11 root window properties, in parameters provided by the application, and in the cookie file (in this order). The advantage of this approach is that these settings are stored persistently in the GConf database. Sign in to your Disney Account and go to My Reservations, where you will see the reservation listed. This tool communicates with the server through the D-Bus API. Samples are sent as-is, without any additional encoding. Finally, I’d like to discuss some problems in the PulseAudio design and implementation that I’ve gathered while writing this document. "Captain Jack Harkness" was the alias adopted by Time Agent and con man Javic Piotr Thane (AUDIO: Month 25) from the 51st century. Most prepaid car rental bookings are non-refundable. Amenities. All streams that didn’t specify any of the above properties share the same volume and routing settings. They are running inside the thread of the master source or sink. The tables below provide a brief summary of modules available out of the box, grouped by categories. Many desktop environments provide such tools. The API is implemented in the libpulse and libpulse-simple libraries, which communicate with the server via the “native” protocol. Routing is non-intuitive. A Bluetooth device may support a subset of defined profiles and roles. RTP transport is implemented as a source output and sink input, which is a bit more complicated. Slower but high-quality resampler from SoX library. The device port is switched when the currently active device port becomes unavailable, or a higher priority device port becomes available. On start, detects ALSA, OSS, Solaris, and WaveOut devices and loads appropriate source and sink modules. The server may send custom events to the client with a textual name and arbitrary binary payload. The client and server then exchange asynchronous commands and chunks of samples through the stream. May contain a command (from client to server), a reply (from server to client), or an event (from server to client). If a non-empty priority list is found, the first currently available device from the priority list is used. However, it’s not aware of the user space stuff, including libasound virtual devices, and therefore can’t be used to forward sound to PulseAudio. Listens to SDP/SAP announcements and automatically creates an RTP sink input for every detected RTP sender. explain their underlying design and important implementation details, provide a starting point for writing clients and server modules, additional complexity, overhead, and bugs (more code always means more bugs), non-intuitive command line tools and configuration, weird features like autospawn and built-in watchdog, poor quality of service over an unreliable network like 802.11 (WiFi), via a session bus (one bus per login session), peer-to-peer (direct communication between applications), Asynchronous API (libpulse), complicated but complete, Simple API (libpulse-simple), a simplified synchronous wrapper for the recording and playback subset of the asynchronous API, only single stream per connection is supported, no support for volume control, channel mappings, and events, “native”, a full-featured protocol for most client-server and server-server communications, authentication - provide authentication data for the server, streams - manage server-side stream state and exchange samples, sample cache - manage server-side sample storage, introspection - query and modify server-side objects, events - subscribe server-side object events, extensions - send custom commands to modules, the server creates an anonymous in-memory file using, the server allocates one block from the pool, initializes the shared ring buffer, and creates semaphores using, the server transfers file descriptors to the client via a Unix domain socket using, the client receives file descriptors and also maps the file to memory using, the server and client now use single shared memory pool and ring buffer, to avoid races, the server and client use mutexes that are placed inside shared memory as well, a local tunnel sink is connected to a remote sink input, a local tunnel source is connected to a remote source output, status commands - list and inspect server-side objects, module management - load, unload, and inspect modules, killing clients and streams - remove clients and streams, volume commands - setup volumes of devices and streams, configuration commands - setup parameters of devices and device ports, property lists - setup property lists of devices and streams, sample cache - add, remove, or play samples in the server-side sample cache, log and debug commands - configure logging, dump server configuration, etc, meta commands - include and conditional directives, over a Unix domain or TCP socket (module-cli-protocol-{unix,tcp}), over the controlling TTY of the server (module-cli), providing clocking in the device time domain, only UCM modifiers and devices that are enabled by currently active card profile, only UCM modifiers and devices that are associated with the ALSA device of the source or sink, Source role (SRC) - the device that sends audio, Sink role (SNK) - the device that receives audio, for SRC device, the server may create a single PulseAudio source which acts as an SNK device, for SNK device, the server may create a single PulseAudio sink which acts as an SRC device, Headset role (HS) - the device with the speakers and microphone, e.g. When an “important” stream is started, automatically duck (lower the volume) or cork (mute and request a pause) active streams. This happened with network transports, sound processing filters, and routing modules. Note that a passthrough source output may be connected only to a passthrough source, and a passthrough sink input may be connected only to a passthrough sink. As noted above, the program should be clocked by the sound card. This sections discusses the key server-side object types. The algorithm is the following: After this, all messages (packet, memblock, shmrelease, shmrevoke) are sent via the shared ring buffer. Source usually runs a thread with its own event loop, generates sample chunks, and posts them to all connected source outputs. Then the user may use tools like netcat to send PCM samples over a Unix domain or TCP socket. This applies both to a pair of computers, as well as to a pair of separately clocked devices on the same computer. This check uses a feature of Unix domain sockets that provide a way to securely determine credentials of the other side. The tool sets X11 properties that may be used by PulseAudio clients to connect to the server. PulseAudio supports several backends to interact with hardware devices and controls. A property has a textual name and textual or binary value. There are two independent routing rule databases. However, PulseAudio doesn’t support RTP extensions. For example, it’s not possible to write a module that improves the RTP support without reimplementing SAP/SDP support or reuse the Zeroconf discovery for an alternative transport. An application may start PulseAudio server as if it were an ESound server, and PulseAudio will notify the application that it was successfully started with a signal of via a file descriptor. The typical use case for this method is to run PulseAudio applications that don’t support ALSA on a system that uses ALSA, without even installing PulseAudio. Saves and restores volume/mute settings and routing rules of stream groups. The local server creates a sink input for the stream. PulseAudio card profile is associated with a profile defined in configuration files. sources and sinks), the core provides hooks for the “native” and D-Bus protocol events, Bluetooth backend provides hooks for driver events, object state or properties are changed, e.g. PulseAudio tends to trigger flame wars, which I believe are non-constructive. The value format depends on the property name. Contains: Defines the name of the ALSA mixer element. When a client creates a stream, it may enable passthrough mode. For a threaded main loop, polling may be performed after obtaining a lock from another thread. Reducing CPU and battery usage by automatically adjusting latency on the fly to a maximum value acceptable for currently running applications, and by disabling currently unnecessary sound processing like resampling. Acoustic echo cancellation module unconditionally sets “phone” role for its sources and sinks. Every RTP source output is connected to a single source and configured to send RTP packets to a single network address, usually a multicast one. Each published entry contains the server address, device name and type, and audio parameters, like sample rate and channel map. However, the lack of the appropriate core abstractions causes problems with code reuse and consistency. Implements routing. Useful when “filter.want” or “filter.apply” property is set automatically, but application wants to disable it. Control commands are sent in both directions. The implementation of the mechanism together with the implementation of all necessary policies may be moved to the core. There is only one core instance which is created at startup. The API is divided into two alternative parts: Asynchronous API is based on event loop and callbacks. Listens to JACK events on D-Bus and automatically loads module-jack-{source,sink} when JACK is started. Server requests client to send some amount of samples from time to time. However, the core does not provide an explicit abstraction of the “native” protocol extension. The remote server creates a source output for the stream. Ensure that there is always at least one non-filter sink. Every time when the sink reads a chunk from its sink inputs, it writes this chunk to the sink monitor. Like PulseAudio, JACK may work on top of several backends, including ALSA. This feature is used in the paprefs GUI which may be used to configure and enable some non-default modules like RTP sender and receiver. Samples are sent from the server to client. However, another path may be specified via the $PULSE_STATE_PATH environment variable. When sink reads samples from the sink input, sink input requests desired amount of samples from the client stream. Physically it is a .conf file under the "/usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets" directory. 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