Hi Guillaume, On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 11:59:08AM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Fri, 2015-12-11 at 17:08 +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > A while ago we (Collabora) implemented a module for Valve changing the > > default policy regarding passthrough streams. > > You can find some context on the original thread: > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-May/020644.html > > > > This module never reached upstream but is still shipped and used by > > default on SteamOS. > > > > I'd be interested resurrecting this work and bring it to a state it > > could be merged upstream. > > What would be needed to reach this? Would fixing Arun's comments from > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/2014-May/020745.html be enough? > ... > > This isn't a blocker, but I'd also like a more descriptive name than > allow-passthrough, but I can't think of one. :) Maybe someone else has > a suggestion. > The May 2014 thread contained a good discussion about the media center / home theater use cases of this module. Upon merge, it would be great to summarize these use-cases here: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Modules Thanks, -- Darwish http://darwish.chasingpointers.com
