[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #839: Sink wrongly unloaded or not reloaded

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#839: Sink wrongly unloaded or not reloaded
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 Reporter:  mcarans  |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  defect   |      Status:  new    
Milestone:           |   Component:  daemon 
 Keywords:           |  
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 I have in .asoundrc:
 {{{
  # Encode AC3 -> Directly on hardware
  pcm.Filter_A52Encode {
      type a52
      bitrate 448
      card NVidia
  }

  # Rate Converter to 48kHz, needed for Pulseaudio it seems
  pcm.Filter_RateConvert {
      type rate slave {
         pcm "Filter_A52Encode" rate 48000
      }
  }
  }}}

  and in default.pa:
  {{{
  load-module module-alsa-sink device=Filter_RateConvert rate=48000
 channels=6 tsched=0 sink_properties=device.description=SPDIF
 sink_name=SPDIF
  }}}

  Music plays through AC3 via SPDIF through Pulseaudio and Alsa, but when I
 close the application (eg. Rhythmbox music player), the SPDIF output
 "disappears".

  I have attached a back trace: pulseaudiooutput_rateconverter.txt

  I think it's here where the Filter_RateConvert sink gets unloaded for
 some reason:
  {{{
  I: client.c: Freed 1 "Rhythmbox"
  I: protocol-native.c: Connection died.
  I: module.c: Unloading "module-alsa-sink" (index: #4).
  D: module-always-sink.c: Autoloading null-sink as no other sinks
 detected.
  }}}

  Is the sink being wrongly unloaded? Or is it correctly unloaded on
 Rhythmbox exit but wrong that it is not then reloaded afterwards?

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