[pulseaudio-discuss] Heads-up: the routing patches will start to get merged soon

[David Henningsson]

On 04/04/2014 11:44 AM, Peter Meerwald wrote:
> 
>>> Peter and Arun, what's your opinion, is this a fair
>>> requirement? What benefit would be significant enough? Which of these
>>> (if any) would be sufficient?
> 
>> Ok, what does Peter/Arun think about this?
> 
> Tanu is starting to do some advertising :), this is good!
> 
>>> 1) Automatic port switching when an application wants to play to an
>>> inactive node: "paplay --routing=some-inactive-port-node foo.wav"
>>>
>>> 2) Support for loopback routing without loading module-loopback
>>> manually: "pactl set-node-routing some-input-port-node
>>> some-output-port-node"
> 
> I think there is no point in keeping stuff separate forever; if it doesn't 
> terribly interfere with the current code, routing should be merged soon

It does interfere a lot with the current code.

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