[pulseaudio-discuss] [WIP] Passthrough support

[Arun Raghavan]

On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 15:40 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> Hello all,
> Based on the RFC I posted earlier, I've implemented basic passthrough
> support in some usable shape. It's up on the passthrough branch of each
> of:
> 
> PulseAudio:
> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/arun/pulseaudio.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/passthrough
> gst-plugins-base:
> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/arun/gst-plugins-base.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/passthrough
> gst-plugins-good:
> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/arun/gst-plugins-good.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/passthrough
> 
> What's here? All the basic plumbing for clients to signal a compresed
> format, have PA pick the "best" supported one, actually play that
> format, and have pactl list show these. The ALSA sink takes AC3 at the
> moment, and I should be pushing DTS support today/tomorrow after some
> more testing.

FWIW, this has now been pushed too. Needed some changes to the DTS
parser in GStreamer, which can be found at:

http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/arun/gst-plugins-bad.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/passthrough

-- Arun