pulseaudio causing crashing of applications

[Kevin Kofler]

Simo Sorce <ssorce <at> redhat.com> writes:
> as PA has rerouting capabilities already, couldn't you simply reroute
> sound to /dev/null (and mic from /dev/null) ?
> 
> This would prevent most older applications from crashing I guess.

+1, that's how I'd implement the "muting" I suggested. Let the applications 
still stream to the per-user PA session, but PA just "eat" whatever is being 
streamed if there isn't a hardware device it can output to.

        Kevin Kofler