[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH, repost] "sink_description" option for module-remap-sink

[Jan Kasprzak]

Lennart Poettering wrote:
: On Tue, 02.06.09 10:56, Jan Kasprzak (kas at fi.muni.cz) wrote:
: 
: > [ this is a repost of the patch - I have not received either positive
: >   or negative feedback so far. Please tell me whether this enhancement
: >   is worth including. The patch is against current git head of PA ]
: > 
: > When I split the 8-channel output to four independent stereo sinks
: > (as described in http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules), the new sinks
: > are all visible in pavucontrol under the same label (which is
: > "Remapped <the original sink name>"), so it is not clear which one
: > user wants to use. One possible way is to fix pavucontrol to use
: > sink names, the other one is to make description configurable
: > in module-remap-sink. This patch implements the second approach.
: 
: All modules in PA git now know parameters "sink_properties" which can
: be used for what you want to do. Instead of passing
: "sink_description=foo" you can pass "sink_properties='device.description=foo'"
: which would have the equivalent effect, but also allows to set
: arbitrary properties on the sink.
: 
: Thanks anyway for your patch, it's much appreciated.

	OK, thanks for implementing the sink_properties parameter.

-Yenya

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