[pulseaudio-discuss] Another take on profiles for multichannel devices

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 15:34 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> The recent question about ufx1604 had me thinking if there is an easier
> way to deal with multichannel devices for all devices, not only firewire.
> 
> And here's the idea:
> 
> Let's add another key to profile-sets, let's call it
> "allow-extra-channels" or something. If that key is set, we're allowed
> to use more channels than specified in the channel map.
> 
> The extra channels gets filled up with aux0, aux1 and so on. (Possibly
> skipping over aux channels already in the map.)
> 
> For our alsa-lib interface, this means that if the key is set, we'll
> call snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels_min and
> snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels_near instead of
> snd_pcm_hw_params_set_channels.
> 
> In default.conf, we would then set this key only on the one that already
> exposes maximum number of channels, which in practice means
> analog-surround-71 for output and analog-4-channel-input for input.
> 
> Does this make sense?

Sounds good to me.

-- 
Tanu