On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 8:50 PM, pl bossart <bossart.nospam at gmail.com> wrote: >> I wont say it will never be supported (if someone writes a well formed >> patch that doesn't introduce any significant complications/overhead then >> I can't see any problems with merging it), but I doubt any of the main >> developers or companies supporting PA will want to do this any time soon >> (although I could of course be wrong here). > > It's on my radar, this is a change that is required for compressed > data support, and while we are at it we could modify the behavior for > PCM as well. Jyri seemed in favor of this as well on the Nokia side. > What I had in mind is that changes in sampling rates would be allowed > only if a sink/source is inactive and the actual hw device closed, and > only if the application has a role where such a change makes sense. I think that would solve the (or my) most common use-case (imho): play music (usually 44100hz) stop music play movie (usually 48000hz) stop movie (rinse and repeat) Cheers, Sander
