[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #278: Bug or lack of feature concerning module-remap-sink

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#278: Bug or lack of feature concerning module-remap-sink
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 Reporter:  nstamoul           |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect             |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal             |   Milestone:         
Component:  module-remap-sink  |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:                     |  
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 This module seems quite useful to me as you might expect it to break down
 multichannel sound to say 2 channel signals and send it to the speaker set
 of your choice.

 For example say one has a 7.1 speaker set.He could simply set a master
 sink loading the module-alsa-sink device=surround71 and then begin to
 break down the signal to 4 separate speaker sets with module-remap-sink.

 However this is not possible due to the fact that when ALL of the virtual
 sinks created by module-remap-sink have the same name on the sink
 list.This creates a conflict leading to pulseaudio crashing if one loads
 more than one modules with module-remap-sink.

 My suggestion is to be able to set the name of the virtual sink created.

 Configuration of my default.pa in case someone wants to reproduce the bug.

 load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=alsa_out device=surround51:1
 channels=6 channel_map=front-left,front-right,aux0,aux1,aux2,aux3
 load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=front_stereo master=alsa_out
 channels=2 master_channel_map=aux0,aux1 channel_map=front-left,front-right
 load-module module-remap-sink sink_name=rear_stereo master=alsa_out
 channels=2 master_channel_map=aux2,aux3 channel_map=front-left,front-right

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