Hi, I could have sworn this was asked about on the ML recently but perhaps it was just IRC as I cannot for the life of me find the message :s Anyway, someone was asking about their 5.1 capable card and how they would prefer that stereo streams were not upmixed as their sound receiver does a better job of upmixing (e.g. Dolby ProLogic or similar gubbins). I was thinking about this today and I think this is a pretty common setup. I think I may actually have need to do that in my own setup now I've finally gotten around to configuring it up in a vaguely working way! So what I was thinking was some way to defining the mixing profile (via simple module argument) that simply lists (comma separated) the channel counts that are permitted for remixing. The remix = yes/no still works too but inverses the logic of the remix_profile argument. e.g. remix="yes" remix_profile="2" means it will *not* remix 2 channel sound to the sinks channel count. whereas remix="no" remix_profile="1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10" means much the same thing, but only as far as 10 channels. Obviously remix_profile is fully optional and remix= works as currently if specified on it's own. I've not analised how the code works to see how much hassle this would be to implement, but if this sounds like a vaguely sensible idea, I'll look at cooking up a patch. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
