On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 11:30:54AM +0100, Guillaume Desmottes wrote: > 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. > """ Yup, that's a very nice summary. Thanks, -- Darwish http://darwish.chasingpointers.com
