Hello! I am currently developing an audio system for an automotive customer, based on PulseAudio where PulseAudio is applicable. It is part of the requirements that the volume of every input channel (sink input) to every output channel (sink) can be configured separately. There are good reasons for this, for example there can be two backseat info- tainment "terminals" which could send their audio to a headphone for each, or to the speakers in the whole car. The user-exposed volume controls will of course present a simplified vew, but for factory configuration, the described control is needed, and volume levels are expected to change at runtime in response to some external events. The problem is that PulseAudio does not support that. It could almost be "hacked" by using one module-combine-sink for every sink input, which at least allows sending a stream to an arbitrary collection of sinks. But it does not support volume control at all. So: - Is there a way that I didn't think of to piece together the desired volume control using existing modules and/or other configuration? I don't want to resort to anything really weird like creating lots of "loopback" devices using local sockets or something like that (also for latency reasons), and running multiple server instances also won't do it due to PA requiring to open devices exclusively. Also, any hacky solution is not allowed to significantly increase (or worse, hide from PA so it can't be compensated) latency. - If not, what do you think would be the best way to do it? I'm thinking of a potential "module-crossbar" that I would need to write, which allows matrix-style (n, m) volume control, i.e. set_volume(sink_input_index, sink_index, volume). Thanks in advance! Andreas Hartmetz
