>> > > Ideally, there would be a solution where you could change the slaves of a >> > > combine-sink dynamically. But, afaik, this does not exist and is not >> > > planned either. >> > >> > It may not be planned, but patches implementing dynamic combine sink >> > slave management would definitely be welcome. >> > >> >> OK. Understood. If it starts to become relevant for my intended >> application, I will implement this. How would the API look like? Is >> it enough to just catch changes on the sinks property list? > > I would suggest adding a protocol extension with associated functions > in libpulse. We currently have three protocol extensions, see the ext- > *.h pages listed here (or have a look at the source code): > https://freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/doxygen/files.html > > The API should have functions for querying the list of existing combine > sinks and their state (the active and configured outputs), for > configuring the combine sink outputs, and for getting notifications of > changes in the combine sink states. And a way to get a notification > when the protocol extension becomes unavailable. > > Feel free to ask any further questions here on the mailing list or in > IRC. OK. Thanks for the support. I ll get back when I would start implementing.
