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

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

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.

Thanks,

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