[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio miniconference 2014, Oct 15, Düsseldorf, Germany

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

09.09.2014 17:22, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> More details are in the wiki:
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Events/2014_Dusseldorf/
>
> We don't yet have discussion topics for the miniconference, so if you
> plan to attend, topic ideas would be very welcome! Send them to the
> list, and I'll collect them to the wiki.
>
> If you have any questions or comments, feel free to send them to the
> list or privately to me.

[please treat all of the below as wishlist items]

I told David that I will be able to discuss extraction of low 
frequencies into the LFE channel with him only after discussing the 
general channel remixer framework with Tanu. Here I mean Tanu's response 
to my point 4 in 
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-February/019978.html 
. Tanu, if you can  prepare anything on this topic (e.g. a mocked-up C 
header file or a  list of ideas that I missed), that would be great.

It would also be nice to hear any updates or see any small demos about 
routing and volumes. Maybe this can solve the stalled status of the 
patches on this topic. Personally, I don't review them because I don't 
see the whole picture.

Then, because of the DSP topic, I would like to see if anyone has any 
thoughts on the plan to get rid of filter sinks. According to the 
comment at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61880 such plan 
indeed exists, but there were no volunteers so far. The fact that the 
best way to handle DSP tasks now is via virtual sinks also seems to make 
Arun unhappy: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83557#c5

And, with very very low priority because of the risk to make people fed 
up by me beating the same topic on two miniconfs, I want to discuss a 
mixed technical + social issue. We have zero virtual sinks with a 
correct rewind implementation, and also had a submission of 
module-xrdp-sink with a rewind implementation even though having no 
rewind support would have been better in that case. I don't completely 
understand why this happens, and would like to hear what technical and 
social measures (e.g. wiki content or comments in the code or whatever 
else) would help people avoid writing incorrect code here.

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov