[pulseaudio-discuss] Making phonon/kde work nicely with pulse

[Mark Greenwood]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 21:20:21 Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Hi Lennart,
> 
> OK, so attached should be a screenie of the KDE settings window.
> 
> As you can see, the idea is to list all the various detected h/w and 
> allow them to be prioritised accordingly. The categories are shown on 
> the left hand side, but each once shows the same set of "devices" 
> (albeit potentially in different orders!)
> 
> As is clear it does show some devices that are not currently 
> attached/detected.
> 
> So to make this work nicely with pulse, I'd need to be able to:
>   1. Record the sinks seen and know whether they are currently alive or 
> not (e.g. for USB, bluetooth and network sinks).
>   2. Provide a way to prioritise our sinks in a list. If the most 
> preferred sink is not available (and our stream is not specifically 
> playing on a given sink) it should automatically pick the next device 
> with the highest priority.
>   3. Allow this priority list to be different for different 
> roles/categories.
> or
>   3. Find a way to have something at the phonon side control the routing 
> decisions in PA (e.g. by uploading rules etc)
> 
> 
> What do you think is needed and what should I work on to get there? Do 
> you see any major roadblocks?
> 

Hi Colin,

Are you saying you will be working on adding pulse sinks to the Phonon configuration? If so Yay for you!

Is this something you're doing as a specific Mandriva customisation, or will it find its way back into trunk phonon-land? I am about to make a decision on distros.... your answer to this question may help me decide :)

Thanks,

Mark


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