[pulseaudio-discuss] pulseaudio xbmc passthrough success

[Kelly Anderson]

On 03/08/2011 03:32 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
> On 03/06/2011 02:54 PM, pl bossart wrote:
>> All you need is a 3D TV now...
>> Seriously, this is good. Can you send a link to this ported AC3Filter
>> code? I thought it was too Windows/DirectX-oriented to be used. I
>> didn't look too much since it's GPL, and LGPL is preferred in terms of
>> integration with proprietary components.
>> Thanks,
>> -Pierre
>
> Pierre,
>
> OK, I've cleaned the code up and it works really well now (for my 
> purposes).  It's really efficient with processing DTS files, I haven't 
> profiled Ac3 yet.  I've rolled it into my copy of xbmc and all seems 
> to be working really well.  I'll be putting patches for xbmc up as 
> well as soon as I've prep'd them.
>
> You could do me a favor if you would complete sink_pulse.{cpp,h}.  
> I've been working on other things and that's really on the back burner 
> for me.  Once the SinkPulse is done, we'll be able to play raw DTS/AC3 
> files pretty much the same way paplay does for other formats.  At some 
> point we might even want to roll AudioFilter into paplay.
>
> I renamed Ac3Filter to AudioFilter.  It really does a bunch more than 
> just Ac3 and I've renamed interfaces, etc.
>
> I'm still renaming files and moving the around a bit, but the headers 
> should be pretty stable.
>
> http://silka.with-linux.com/audiofilter/
>
> I'll probably put the code in a git repository once I've got the file 
> renaming out of the way.

OK,  I've just put up the patches necessary to get passthrough working 
with Nvidia hdmi on XBMC.