On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 12:49 -0600, david.hagood at gmail.com wrote: > I'd like to make a suggestion for Pulseaudio - programmable dead time > before uncorking a source when the output is SPDIF or HDMI. > > Justification: I have my computer tied to a 5.1 receiver via SPDIF. When I > start playing music in applications such as Audacious, the first half > second of audio is lost as the stereo has to detect the data stream > starting, work out the encoding, and then start decoding. If I could tell > Pulse to insert some "dead air" to allow things to sync up first, then > start playing, this would be eliminated. Sounds sensible to me. I filed a bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47387 -- Tanu
