On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 10:40 +1100, Dave Moore wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering.net>
> On Mon, 05.10.09 14:30, Dave Moore (davewantsmoore at gmail.com)
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Everyone. I'm really sorry if this has been covered
> before, I've read
> > back through the past 6 months list history and found
> nothing.... and my OS
> > (ubuntu) and application support forums/lists are not being
> very helpful.
> >
> > I would like to pass digital audio completely unaltered
> ("bit-stream") to my
> > SPDIF output - Can this be done with pulseaudio?
>
>
> No. Not at this time. (See other mails in this thread for what
> is planned)
>
> If you need ac3 pass-thru then you need to bypass PA. Just
> make sure
> you are not using the SPDIF port for PA (use g-v-c or
> pavucontrol and
> make sure the sound card is notconfigured for any of the
> 'digital
> iec985' modes).
>
>
> Lennart
> Wow. Thanks for the replies everyone. I didn't know what to expect.
>
> I completely understand why PA doesn't work (well?!) with
> pass-through.... so my question is now.
>
> If I am to keep PA installed and configured (it's now part of my Linux
> distro and would like to keep things as "vanilla" as possible).....
> what steps can I take to have PA pass unaltered data through to my
> digital out ?
>
> (I understand I will not have sound mixing, or multiple applications
> able to use the card at once -> basically I would lose all the
> benefits of PA..... but in order to stick with what my distro offers,
> but also to get what I need (encoded formats passed unaltered to
> digital out)..... what can I do?)
>
>
> Many thanks.
Please bottom-post, its more readable.
As for your question, you just need to follow Lennart's instructions,
make sure pulse does not load your digital output. You'd probably have
to comment out module-hal-detect or module-udev-detect and manually load
other soundcard modules, if any.
