On mar., 2016-03-01 at 11:12 +0200, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > 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 Something like this? """ module-allow-passthrough Since $VERSION. This module ensures that passthrough streams are always allowed to play on sinks. The default policy in pulseaudio is to only allow exclusive access if nothing else is currently using the sink. With this module, all the existing streams are muted (by being re -routed to the null sink) when a passthrough stream comes in, allowing the passthrough stream to use the sink. This is particularly useful with media centers and HTPC boxes where we usually always want to be able to start a video even if an external notification sound happened to be playing at the same time. """
