On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 23:14 +0200, Janos Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > so far we were talking of the simpler routing scenarios. So let's shift to > the next gear and discuss the more challenging setup's. > > In some cases we might have multiple zones, e.g a desktop PC > were in one room and a stereo amplifier would be in another > connected via S/PDIF. Say you want to do the usual stuff and > see youtube videos in one room, while playing out music to the > other room. > > Let's forget for a moment about that there is no profile with dual sink > and focus on the possible routing issues. > > How would our media role based routing work? Both streams > media role would be 'music' so it could not be used to select the > sink. > > One option would be to add a property to the streams what would > tell the 'zone'. The lack of property would default to a certain zone. > That would be a natural thing from the application perspective but > would break the currently proposed routing infrastructure. Does the proposed system limit the input for decisions to only one property? If so, then I'd say the proposal needs fixing. > The other option would be to follow the bad example of profiles > and have media roles like 'music' , 'music-in-zone2' etc. This > thing would work with the proposed routing infrastructure but ... ...but violates the rule that only roles from the predefined set may be used, if interoperability is desired. -- Tanu
