[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH]: High-definition audio pass-through support

[Maarten Bosmans]

2011/11/17 Kelly Anderson <kelly at silka.with-linux.com>:
> Hi,
>
> So I patched PulseAudio 1.1 for hdmi-surround-71 and lo and behold it
> worked.
> Here's a patch, hopefully we can get this added in the next official release
> of PulseAudio.  I know that there are quite a few Xbmc users that have been
> anxiously
> waiting for high-definition audio pass-through to work correctly.  Of course
> if someone
> has a better solution, that would be fine too.

Note that there's nothing inherently high-definition about the audio
data through a hdmi connector.

How about also adding 4.0 and 5.1? That seems more complete.

Maarten