On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 11:03 AM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 26/03/09 14:25 did gyre and gimble: >> >> I doubt that it would be so useful to expose this in PA anyway. I >> mean, how realistic is it wanting to drive both SPDIF and analog audio >> at the same time from the same sound card? Appears to be a very exotic >> niche usage to me. > > I'm not so sure. I've had quite a few people wanting to do this. One user > even has a card where the analog comes out his speakers but the digital is > connected to his HDMI output. For him, he can play a movie on his computer > via HDMI and direct the movie's audio via the digital connector while still > using his computer and wanting to output desktop related sounds there. > > That's not an overly exotic setup IMO. > > (normally HDMI sound comes from a different "card" in the examples I've seen > in the past, so this one was an exception to me). This example was on IRC > just the other day... just search your backlog for STAC and you should find > it! > > That example aside, I have seen several comments from other users wanting to > use both at the same time, so I for one would really like to see this setup > supported in pulse (despite not having the h/w to exploit it myself!). > > Col It would be great if it was supported automatically! But in the meantime, can I get my patch accepted? As I said, I'll forward port it if you just let me know that you'll apply the patch. Thanks, Kyle
