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

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

Hi Guillaume,

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:59:08AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 17:08 +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > A while ago we (Collabora) implemented a module for Valve changing the
> > default policy regarding passthrough streams.
> > You can find some context on the original thread:
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-May/020644.html
> > 
> > This module never reached upstream but is still shipped and used by
> > default on SteamOS.
> > 
> > I'd be interested resurrecting this work and bring it to a state it
> > could be merged upstream.
> > What would be needed to reach this? Would fixing Arun's comments from
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-May/020745.html be enough?
>
...
> 
> This isn't a blocker, but I'd also like a more descriptive name than
> allow-passthrough, but I can't think of one. :) Maybe someone else has
> a suggestion.
>

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

Thanks,

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