[pulseaudio-discuss] {PATCH][RFC] AC3 passthrough support

[pl bossart]

> Again, when reading the thread further, I found the reason why
> snd_pcm_hw_params_can_rewind doesn't exist - it was replaced by
> snd_pcm_rewindable. Pulseaudio doesn't call that. I added a "patch" (not
> formatted as a proper patch) to ticket 839 that adds the
> snd_pcm_rewindable check to the alsa sink. If you could test that and
> see if it helps with the rate converter plugin, I'll prepare a proper
> patch.

Tanu, can you provide this fix? Couldn't find your patch, no bug #839.
PulseAudio has another routine: pa_alsa_pcm_is_hw, this could also be
used but it would prevent rewinds for iec958 as well...
Thanks