>>> and last you strip the header and pass the >>> payload to your hardware decoder using the compressed API. >> >> Do you mean by stripping the IEC header frame with MP3 header will be >> there and pass the same to hardware decoder? > > I'm not sure what Pierre meant. PulseAudio expects the alsa device to > consume the IEC-wrapped data. I guess you could make an alsa plugin that > shows up as a PCM device to PulseAudio, and the plugin then receives the > wrapped data from PulseAudio, unwraps the MP3 data and finally feeds it > to the compressed API. Depends on what your hardware supports. The compressed API can handle either IEC-based payload or elementary streams (i.e. raw MP3). The pulseaudio sink needs to make the adjustments if needed.
