Ralph Katz <ralph.k...@rcn.com> writes: > On 08/12/2015 10:46 PM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: >> I'm reasonably confident there must be a better place to post this than >> this newsgroup, so answers telling me where to look will be just as >> welcome as any that address the question! I'm a Debian user, so this is >> where I'm trying first.... >> >> Is there a pulseaudio module that will detect when an audio source isn't >> silent, and mute other sources in that cases? >> >> It may be more clear if I describe my particular desire use case. I >> have a ham radio, whose audio output I can plug into my sound card >> input. I'd like to be listening to music, but when a call comes in on >> the radio have it mute any other audio. >> >> Any thoughts? > > Joe -- Back in May we discussed pausing vlc with skype. Your situation > is not identical, but take a look at /etc/pulse/default.pa for ideas. > Wish I knew more about pulseaudio... > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/05/msg00643.html
It looks like that discussion is about whether or not skype should pause multimedia players when a call comes in -- the usual behavior is it does, and the poster was asking for a way to keep it from happening. This is using the cork module, which will stop other streams when a new stream starts; if I'm reading it correctly, skype creates a new stream when a call comes. Hmmm, this may be the start of an answer for me -- start a stream when the input audio level gets above some threshold, end it after it dips below... (note the squelch discussion at http://www.windytan.com/2013/07/squelch-it-out.html doesn't start and stop the stream, it just replaces samples in the stream with 0s, so that's not going to do it...)
