[pulseaudio-discuss] Does pulseaudio support HDMI, Wi-Fi Display and USB headset?

[Marco Ballesio]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:05 AM, David Henningsson
<david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/2011 04:12 AM, Lin, Mengdong wrote:
>>
>> Does pulse audio have modules to support HDMI, Wi-Fi Display and USB
>> headset?
>>
>> If yes, what are the modules’ names? Can they detect
>> connection/disconnection of these devices?
>
> USB and HDMI (on a typical PC) are handled by ALSA and thus
> module-udev-detect. USB headsets are autodetected in the sense that cards
> show up and disappear, whereas HDMI codecs are always present (and you need
> my jack detection patches in order to detect if there's a monitor connected
> or not).
>
> Never heard of sending audio to a "Wi-Fi Display", what protocol does that
> typically speak? RTP?
>

I think Lin is talking about the Intel Wireless Display:

http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-wireless-display.html

It looks like the specs are not mentioned in Intel's website, so it
would be really kind for anybody who finds them to post a link here.

Regards

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