Pulseaudio: support customized player name

yorkie · November 29, 2017, 8:58am

Hi I’m using SDL for my own Linux OS as the multimedia layer, and
we use pulseaudio as our backend player, and we control volume at
pulseaudio as well, so we are grouping by the name of pulseaudio
there.

So the SDL2 is hardcode for the player name at:

github.com

SDL-mirror/SDL/blob/master/src/audio/pulseaudio/SDL_pulseaudio.c#L609


    return SDL_SetError("Requested PulseAudio sink/source missing?");
}


/* The SDL ALSA output hints us that we use Windows' channel mapping */
/* http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110 */
PULSEAUDIO_pa_channel_map_init_auto(&pacmap, this->spec.channels,
                                    PA_CHANNEL_MAP_WAVEEX);


h->stream = PULSEAUDIO_pa_stream_new(
    h->context,
    "Simple DirectMedia Layer", /* stream description */
    &paspec,    /* sample format spec */
    &pacmap     /* channel map */
    );


if (h->stream == NULL) {
    return SDL_SetError("Could not set up PulseAudio stream");
}


/* now that we have multi-device support, don't move a stream from
    a device that was unplugged to something else, unless we're default. */

So if anyone give some advises?