PCSXR Emulator switching sound profiles in pulse audio
First of all I'm running lubuntu 16.04, it wont be upgrading anytime soon due to kernel stability for this specific device.
So heres what's happening, when I launch a game on PCSXR the profile in pulse audio is switching to the laptop speakers when it should be staying on the HDMI profile on the TV for audio.
I can't test anything out until Saturday this week and I am pulling my hair out researching a fix for this issue, is there a way that I can stop this from happening?
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Ok so after some mucking around I got something that's working.
I've got some modified scripts and cores with retroarch that launches the script directly on my girlfriend's media computer I maintain for her, here's what I did.
In the i3 configuration file I set the profile in pulseaudio to default to her specified preferred audio output
exec pactl set-card-profile alsa_card.pci-0000_00_1f.3 output:hdmi-stereoI then added these launching in a bash script on psx launch to default back to her pulseaudio profile that gets launched by retro arch.
#!/bin/bash
antimicro --hidden --profile /home/USER/.config/antimicro/gaming.gamecontroller.amgp &
/home/USER/.config/retroarch/roms/audioworkaround.sh &
pcsx -nogui -cdfile "/home/USER/Documents/Emulation/Playstation/Crash Bandicoot 3/Crash Bandicoot - Warped (USA).bin"
/home/USER/.config/retroarch/roms/audioworkaround.sh &
antimicro --hidden --profile /home/USER/.config/antimicro/home.gamecontroller.amgpIt will go to my my audio work around script that sleeps for 6 seconds and switch to the profile on what I did in my i3 configuration file, thanks for some of the advice guys 🙂
