On Fri, 2017-10-06 at 14:51 -0400, Chris Billington wrote: > Hi Colin, > > A while ago I wanted to set the latency offset of a null sink, and I wrote > some patches to be able to do this, not by adding a port, but by adding the > ability to set the latency offset on a sink. I'm sure you can find them if > you search this list for my name. However I never got around to tidying up > the patches for inclusion in pulseaudio. > > I'm just mentioning it because if it wasn't too much hassle, you might > consider applying your approach in a general way that allows null sinks to > have a port associated with them too. If you did then it would solve my > problem (latency control over a network using a custom streaming thing of > mine based on a null sink) too. I think it makes more sense to allow setting the latency offset for a sink without ports than forcing all sinks to require to be part of a card. I'm not against making it possible to load a dummy card with null sinks and ports (that could be useful for testing port functionality if nothing else), but I'd still want to be able to load just a simple null sink without extra bells and whistles. As for raop, I think having a card makes some sense: it is sort of a remote sound card after all. -- Tanu https://www.patreon.com/tanuk
