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How to get my Xfce desktop environment to output sound?

Posted on April 1, 2019

So I’m trying to stream from my droplet to Twitch. I’ve already found a solution for the video- https://belive.tv/ it outputs the video fine.

I don’t think my droplet is configured to output any sound in the first place, so of course it can’t pick up any sound and only streams video.

Specifically I just want access to the sound the web browser is making to be accessible.

Any ideas!?



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Hello @mcplums

I believe you’ll need to use an additional package like pavucontrol. The tool is a simple volume control tool (mixer) for the PulseAudio sound server which should already be installed.

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/pavucontrol.1.html

After installing pavucontrol you have graphical access to several useful settings for pulseaudio including a choice for your output device. Choose the default output device in the Output Device

Hope that this helps!

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