On Fri, 2012-03-09 at 01:07 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > On 03/08/2012 11:17 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 07:17 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: > > [...] > >> +[Mapping hdmi-surround] > >> +description = Digital Surround 5.1 (HDMI) > >> +device-strings = hdmi:%f > >> +paths-output = hdmi-output-0 > >> +channel-map = front-left,front-right,rear-left,rear-right,front-center,lfe > >> +priority = 3 > >> +direction = output > > > > Should we also be adding a 7.1 profile? As I understand HDMI support 7.1 > > LPCM. Of course, ideally, we should get the number of speaker in ELD > > information and configure the profiles accordingly, but that's for > > another day. > > This is just a question of what's common, vs the minor extra time and > space taken at startup (especially for all those cards that don't have > HDMI at all). > > I don't have a really strong opinion either way as I don't know how > common it is that people want to use 7.1 LPCM HDMI. I'd vote to have those profiles, but I'm open to being convinced they're not common enough. -- Arun
