On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:05 AM, David Henningsson <david.henningsson at canonical.com> wrote: > On 03/16/2012 03:06 AM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: >> >> On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 02:48 +0100, David Henningsson wrote: >>> >>> As I see it we have a couple of options. >>> >>> ? * no auto switching between HDMI and analog outputs at all. This is >>> probably the simplest option. But maybe this is not the most user >>> friendly option? >>> >>> ? * full switching. This requires not only profile switching on plug and >>> unplug, but also switching between cards, i e moving streams between >>> cards, and updating the default sink. More work, but definitely doable. >>> I get the feeling that we want to avoid updating the default sink when >>> it's not a direct user action though? >> >> >> I guess you are more familiar with the use cases, but wouldn't it be >> common to attach a monitor without wanting to use the monitor's audio >> output? If that's the case, I think auto-switching isn't really a good >> idea. > > > I don't know how common it is to want to use, vs does not want to use, the > audio output of an HDMI monitor. That's part of why I'm asking :-) > > Also, I don't know if it's possible/common that the HDMI monitor lies to us > about its audio capabilities, so that it would say that it has audio > capabilities when it does not. I did however test connecting my DVI monitor > over HDMI and that one correctly did not show up as having audio > capabilities. I guess a common case is to connect to a TV over HDMI, and that most TV's correctly report audio capabilities (as they have at least an inbuilt 10W speaker). However, unless the TV is connected to proper external speakers (which I guess we cannot tell?), I assume the HDMI audio should be the last preference and not be switched to automatically? Cheers, Tom
