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

[Guillaume Desmottes]

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.
"""