Re: Routing audio over HDMI outputs

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On Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 05:54 PM (+0100), Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:43:09 +0100,
> Isaac Jurado wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday, November 14, 2013 at 04:51 PM (+0100), Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > > At Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:41:08 +0100, Isaac Jurado wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wednesday, November 13, 2013 at 03:40 PM (+0100), Isaac Jurado wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > When I add more simultaneous videos to the other screens,
> > > > > other weird things may happen.  But listening different audio
> > > > > streams over different outputs is possible.  Therefore I have
> > > > > two questions:
> > > > >
> > > > >   1. Is it possible to create an alias or somehow "virtual"
> > > > >      audio device where I can configure the output using the
> > > > >      "port_id" information previously mentioned?  There is a
> > > > >      PCM route plugin, but I'm not sure about its
> > > > >      possibilities or if appropriate.
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps I should have been more specific from the beginning.
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to use the HDMI ELD information in the ALSA
> > > > configuration?  Like, for example, to create a device pointing
> > > > to a fixed output (e.g. based on the "port_id" information).
> > >
> > > The port_id field is filled by the graphics driver, and there is
> > > no standard definition, i.e. the value depends on the graphics
> > > driver.  It's merely a hint, and thus cannot be used as identifier
> > > reliably, unfortunately.
> > >
> > > At least, for the in-tree drivers like i915, radeon and nouveau,
> > > we can standardize the usage of this field in future.  But not now
> > > yet.
> >
> > Therefore, the fact that all HDMI audio devices end up in the same
> > physical output of the graphics card is caused by the nvidia driver,
> > correct?
>
> Yes.  The HDMI audio driver picks up the individual HDMI audio pin
> widget for each PCM substream (3, 7, 8, etc), which should correspond
> to a different output, but the rest is the job of the graphics driver.
> If this ends to the same output, there is little to help from
> the audio driver side.

Thanks.  This is just what I needed to know.

-- 
Isaac Jurado

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