Audio Manager
Submitted by Zheng, Huan, updated on 23 Aug 2009
Audio manager is a Moblin component for managing all audio streams and devices. Audio manager provides the following functionalities:
- Manage multiple audio sinks and sources
- Manage all individual audio streams
- Configurable policy
- Policy-based mixing of audio streams and policy based sink/source selection
- Policy-based muting/volume adjustment of audio streams
- Audio stream priority
- Programming API for audio applications
With audio manager, the most appropriate audio streams are chosen to playback on the most appropriate device, based on properties of audio streams and devices, and policy.
With audio manager, several key user experience on audio will be enabled in moblin, such as: automatically transfer audio to BT headset when BT headset is connected, gradually mute a music playback when telephone call comes in and gradually restore a music playback when telephone call ends.
