[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] allow-passthrough module

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

Hi Guillaume,

On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 01:23:59PM +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:30:54AM +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> > On mar., 2016-03-01 at 11:12 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> > >
> > > The May 2014 thread contained a good discussion about the media
> > > center / home theater use cases of this module. Upon merge, it
> > > would be great to summarize these use-cases here:
> > > 
> > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules
> > 
> > Something like this?
> > 
> > """
> > module-allow-passthrough
> > 
> > Since $VERSION. This module ensures that passthrough streams are always
> > allowed to play on sinks. The default policy in pulseaudio is to only
> > allow exclusive access if nothing else is currently using the sink.
> > With this module, all the existing streams are muted (by being re
> > -routed to the null sink) when a passthrough stream comes in, allowing
> > the passthrough stream to use the sink.
> > This is particularly useful with media centers and HTPC boxes where we
> > usually always want to be able to start a video even if an external
> > notification sound happened to be playing at the same time.
> > """
> 
> Yup, that's a very nice summary.
>

Since this is now merged in master, I've added the above paragraph
to the wiki at Documentation/User/Modules. Thanks!

BTW the passthrough use case, and this module, is mentioned in our
new (draft) AccessControl/Containers effort at:

  https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/AccessControl

Regards,

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