Wow. Thanks for the replies everyone. I didn't know what to expect.<br><br>I completely understand why PA doesn't work (well?!) with pass-through.... so my question is now.<br><br>If I am to keep PA installed and configured (it's now part of my Linux distro and would like to keep things as "vanilla" as possible)..... what steps can I take to have PA pass unaltered data through to my digital out ?<br> <br>(I understand I will not have sound mixing, or multiple applications able to use the card at once -> basically I would lose all the benefits of PA..... but in order to stick with what my distro offers, but also to get what I need (encoded formats passed unaltered to digital out)..... what can I do?)<br> <br><br>Many thanks.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/6 Lennart Poettering <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Mon, 05.10.09 14:30, Dave Moore (<a href="mailto:davewantsmoore@gmail.com">davewantsmoore@gmail.com</a>) wrote:<br> <br> > Hi Everyone. I'm really sorry if this has been covered before, I've read<br> > back through the past 6 months list history and found nothing.... and my OS<br> > (ubuntu) and application support forums/lists are not being very helpful.<br> ><br> > I would like to pass digital audio completely unaltered ("bit-stream") to my<br> > SPDIF output - Can this be done with pulseaudio?<br> <br> </div>No. Not at this time. (See other mails in this thread for what is planned)<br> <br> If you need ac3 pass-thru then you need to bypass PA. Just make sure<br> you are not using the SPDIF port for PA (use g-v-c or pavucontrol and<br> make sure the sound card is notconfigured for any of the 'digital<br> iec985' modes).<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> Lennart<br> <br> --<br> Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc.<br> lennart [at] poettering [dot] net<br> <a href="http://0pointer.net/lennart/" target="_blank">http://0pointer.net/lennart/</a> GnuPG 0x1A015CC4<br> _______________________________________________<br> pulseaudio-discuss mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de">pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de</a><br> <a href="https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss" target="_blank">https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br>