[pulseaudio-discuss] source-sink loopback

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and pl bossart at 20/08/09 20:37 did gyre and gimble:
>> Just wanted to say that I'm working on a module for unrelated reasons that
>> would probably come in handy here.
>>
>> While some other modules (bluetooth?) may load this module internally
>> as/when they need it, I'm working on a system that would let you define
>> modules to load via a GUI and associate them with sinks/sources etc. that
>> are not currently plugged in (it maintains a history of the sinks/sources
>> it's seen in the past).
>>
>> This GUI would allow you to e.g. define a loopback module definition that
>> works with Source A and Sink B. The loader module will automatically try and
>> load any defined and active module which are not currently loaded every time
>> a new sink/source is detected.
>>
>> This structure shoudl be ideal for people wanting to define custom "pass
>> throughs".
> 
> Yes this would be nice. In my tests I load the module from a file, and
> this is a hard-coded configuration. Having the ability to recall which
> sinks and sources need to be connected would be quite useful indeed.
> Didn't think my week-end hack would be associated with a GUI anytime
> soon....

Yeah. "soon". For various values of "soon" :p

Col

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