~/.pulse/daemon.conf

@PA_DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/daemon.conf

The PulseAudio sound server reads configuration directives from a file ~/.pulse/daemon.conf on startup and when that file doesn't exist from @PA_DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR@/daemon.conf. Please note that the server also reads a configuration script on startup default.pa which also contains runtime configuration directives.

The configuration file is a simple collection of variable declarations. If the configuration file parser encounters either ; or # it ignores the rest of the line until its end.

For the settings that take a boolean argument the values true, yes, on and 1 are equivalent, resp. false, no, off, 0.

See for more information. Set to -1 if PulseAudio shall not touch the resource limit. Not all resource limits are available on all operating systems.

Most drivers try to open the audio device with these settings and then fall back to lower settings. The default settings are CD quality: 16bit native endian, 2 channels, 44100 Hz sampling.

Some hardware drivers require the hardware playback buffer to be subdivided into several fragments. It is possible to change these buffer metrics for machines with high scheduling latencies. Not all possible values that may be configured here are available in all hardware. The driver will to find the nearest setting supported. Modern drivers that support timer-based scheduling ignore these options.

With the flat volume feature enabled, the sink HW volume is set to the same level as the highest volume input stream. Any other streams (with lower volumes) have the appropriate adjustment applied in SW to bring them to the correct overall level. Sadly hadware mixer changes cannot be timed accurately and thus this change of volumes can somtimes cause the resulting output sound to be momentarily too loud or too soft. So to ensure SW and HW volumes are applied concurrently without any glitches, their application needs to be synchronized. The sink implementation needs to support deferred volumes. The following parameters can be used to refine the process.

The PulseAudio Developers <@PACKAGE_BUGREPORT@>; PulseAudio is available from

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