pulsesink

This element outputs audio to a PulseAudio sound server.

Example pipelines

 gst-launch-1.0 -v filesrc location=sine.ogg ! oggdemux ! vorbisdec ! audioconvert ! audioresample ! pulsesink

Play an Ogg/Vorbis file.

 gst-launch-1.0 -v audiotestsrc ! audioconvert ! volume volume=0.4 ! pulsesink

Play a 440Hz sine wave.

 gst-launch-1.0 -v audiotestsrc ! pulsesink stream-properties="props,media.title=test"

Play a sine wave and set a stream property. The property can be checked with "pactl list".

Hierarchy

GObject
    ╰──GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰──GstObject
            ╰──GstElement
                ╰──GstBaseSink
                    ╰──GstAudioBaseSink
                        ╰──pulsesink

Implemented interfaces

Factory details

Authors: – Lennart Poettering

Classification: – Sink/Audio

Rank – primary + 10

Plugin – pulseaudio

Package – GStreamer Good Plug-ins

Pad Templates

sink

audio/x-raw:
         format: { S16LE, S16BE, F32LE, F32BE, S32LE, S32BE, S24LE, S24BE, S24_32LE, S24_32BE, U8 }
         layout: interleaved
           rate: [ 1, 384000 ]
       channels: [ 1, 32 ]
audio/x-alaw:
           rate: [ 1, 384000 ]
       channels: [ 1, 32 ]
audio/x-mulaw:
           rate: [ 1, 384000 ]
       channels: [ 1, 32 ]
audio/x-ac3:
         framed: true
audio/x-eac3:
         framed: true
audio/x-dts:
         framed: true
     block-size: { (int)512, (int)1024, (int)2048 }
audio/mpeg:
    mpegversion: 1
mpegaudioversion: [ 1, 3 ]
         parsed: true
audio/mpeg:
    mpegversion: { (int)2, (int)4 }
         framed: true
  stream-format: adts

Presence – always

Direction – sink

Object type – GstPad

Properties

client-name 

“client-name” gchararray

The PulseAudio client name to use.

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : gst-hotdoc-plugins-scanner

current-device 

“current-device” gchararray

The current PulseAudio sink device

Flags : Read

device 

“device” gchararray

The PulseAudio sink device to connect to

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : NULL

device-name 

“device-name” gchararray

Human-readable name of the sound device

Flags : Read

Default value : NULL

mute 

“mute” gboolean

Mute state of this stream

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : false

server 

“server” gchararray

The PulseAudio server to connect to

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : NULL

stream-properties 

“stream-properties” GstStructure *

List of pulseaudio stream properties. A list of defined properties can be found in the pulseaudio api docs.

Below is an example for registering as a music application to pulseaudio.

 GstStructure *props;

 props = gst_structure_from_string ("props,media.role=music", NULL);
 g_object_set (pulse, "stream-properties", props, NULL);
 gst_structure_free

Flags : Read / Write

volume 

“volume” gdouble

Linear volume of this stream, 1.0=100%%

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 1

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