[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] Passthrough support

[Arun Raghavan]

On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 03:42 -0700, Kelly Anderson wrote:
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> The alsa driver has creates a /proc entry that lists the coding types 
> available for a particular device.  It'd be nice if you would use that 
> for the list of supported coding types (at least for a default).  I'm 
> not sure the list would be automatically updated if you unplugged a 
> device and plugged in a new device.  The comprehensive list of supported 
> coding types is in alsa-kernel/pci/hda/hda-eld.c.

I don't know how it works for HDMI, but if it does update that list
based on the receiver, that would be ideal for us, since we should be
able to probe that while routing.

For S/PDIF, we don't have that option so I guess we'll need to add some
additional checkboxes to GUIs so users can select what formats their
receiver supports.

-- Arun