On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Dark Shadow <shadowofdarkness at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > Don't worry, it must of been a random problem after rolling back to old versions of your passthrough branch then moving up one commit at at time to try and track the breakage I made it back to the newest with it working again.
