On Tue, 06.10.09 10:40, Dave Moore (davewantsmoore at gmail.com) wrote: > 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?) Just make sure PA doesn't grab the device, and then tell your app to use the low-level spdif-pass-thru directly. How that is configured has nothing to do with PA, and in fact stays exactly the same whether you run PA or not. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
