[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] Passthrough support

[Arun Raghavan]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 17:47 +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 22:02 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> > I've put up a draft proposed API changes to get passthrough support to
> > the point where things Just Work™ for at least the common cases, based
> > on previous discussion on-/off-list:
> > 
> > http://pulseaudio.org/wiki/PassthroughSupport
> > 
> > Please review/comment. Once we have some consensus, I'll send in patches
> > to actually get this done.
> 
> How about reusing gstreamer formats, so that adding a new format to PA
> makes it appear automagically in apps using GST (no need to recompile
> GST) ?

Tempting as it is ;), we want to keep PA framework-agnostic. Also, in
most cases, you will likely need to update pulsesink on the GStreamer
side anyway to do some sort of payloading (IEC 61937 in the formats
we're talking about now).

Cheers,
Arun