On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Arun Raghavan <arun.raghavan at collabora.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 18:23 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > [...] >> The changes needed to actually use this in GStreamer are also done, but >> not upstream yet. I need to do some rebasing to make this stuff good to >> push out, so details on this in a following mail. > > Okay, this is also pushed and good to test. I'll be pushing this out to > master after the next round of gst* releases (which should happen in the > next couple of weeks or so). For now, you'll need: > > * gstreamer from git master > * gst-plugins-base from: > http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/arun/gst-plugins-base.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/passthrough > * gst-plugins-good from: > http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/arun/gst-plugins-good.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/passthrough > * gst-plugins-bad, gst-plugins-ugly, gst-ffmpeg built against the above > would probably also be needed (for non-passthrough playback) > > With all but the top-most commit to gst-plugins-good, pulsesink will be > plugged in passthrough mode when the sink supports the format of the > input. > > The top-most commit on gst-plugins-good introduces a new pulsesinkbin > element, which automatically reconfigures based on what formats are > available on the sink we're connected to. So if you're playing AC3 in > passthrough mode over S/PDIF and switch to analog out, it'll > transparently plug in a decoder, and if you switch back to digital out, > the decoder will be removed and passthrough mode will be enabled again. > > pulsesinkbin will be autoplugged if your app (or gst-launch) is using > playbin2, but most applications totem/rhythmbox/... override the > playbin2 audio sink, so there's some work pending before this just works > with players. > > I'm happy to help if anyone runs into problems while testing. > > Cheers, > Arun > > p.s.: for those of you who want to test but don't have a > gstreamer-from-git setup already, jhbuild[1] or gst-uninstalled[2] > should be useful. > I have been using this branch for awhile (since the first day XBMC could use it to passthrough DTS-HD) and will it worked for most that time yesterday I updated to the most recent git pull and now pulseaudio doesn't even see my Nvidia HDMI at all anymore. It doesn't show as a possible sink. This is on a XBMC-Live dedicated HTPC that nothing else has changed in recent time. I can still use HDMI by using straight Alsa so nothing happened to it.
