[pulseaudio-discuss] [RFC] Dynamic reconfiguration of sampling rate

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:23:44AM -0600, pl bossart wrote:

> > So I'm not sure we can idle at 0s as a general rule, but as I have very
> > limited test hardware (namely my laptop and couple other machine which
> > aren't really meant for testing!), I can't really say this with any
> > degree of confidence.

> I'll do more testing later today. I could see some issues with
> networking or interfaces like S/PDIF or HDMI, where the receiver needs
> to relock. But for local playback we should be fine. You will still

Not always - anything which doesn't bias the outputs to zero volts (and
even some things that do) is likely to have some pop/click or delay
issues on powerup.  Newer hardware will generally do better here but not
everyone uses the latest shiny.