[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] profile-switcher: New module to switch card profiles based on roles

[Lin, Mengdong]

> > How about making profile switch more general?
> >
> > 1. When a card adds a new profile, add a property "intended roles" to the
> profile, same as what we do to a device:
> >   Add a line to proplist.h
> >   #define PA_PROP_DEVICE_PROFILE_DESCRIPTION     "device.profile.
> intended_roles"
> 
> Other than on Bluetooth (and *maybe* USB devices with sufficient
> metadata), there really isn't a way to accurately tag a sink (especially
> ALSA sink) with an intended role.
> 
> > 2. Then the module-device-switch can query the profile intended roles and
> select the best profile for a stream.
> >
> > Is this doable? If yes, I can write a patch for it and change the Bluetooth
> device module to add "phone" property for "hsp" profile?
> 
> This is already done in the bluetooth module.
> 

My suggestions is to *not* to tag a sink with an intended role, but to tag a profile with an intended role. 
So the module-profile-switch can set the best profile for a steam.

For an ALSA card, I think it can also has different profiles for different purpose. e.g. surround profile for HiFi, and stereo input+output profile for phone.

Thanks
Mengdong

 
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