[pulseaudio-discuss] how to find out PulseAudio's base rate (44100?) from ALSA?

[Arun Raghavan]

On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 15:51 +0100, Joerg-Cyril.Hoehle at t-systems.com
wrote:
[...]
> The reason is that Wine's mmdevapi advertises one preferred format. Ideally, you'd
> want that to match the audio device that Wine uses. That works with hw:0 and dmix,
> but I can't find out how to make it work with Pulse.
> Currently it looks like 48000 gets downsampled to 44100 because PA pretends to support that rate.

Is it not possible for applications to provide mmdevapi (or whatever
audio layer they're talking to) samples in their native format/rate?
This really is the ideal case since PulseAudio can take care of trying
to not resample or apply (a possibly more optimised) resampler if
necesssary.

-- Arun