This sounds like a very useful plugin. Thanks for your work! On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Lars Hanisch <dvb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > While releasing yaVDR 0.6[1] (blog post will come after the holidays) I wrote a little plugin called pulsecontrol: > > Announce: > http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board55-vdr-plugins/127846- > > Source: > https://github.com/flensrocker/vdr-plugin-pulsecontrol > > If you use Pulseaudio for audio output, you can change some settings of it via the vdr's OSD like moving a sink-input > between sinks or selecting different card profiles. You can also change the passthrough settings of a card. > > If you want to select a specific card profile or sink on vdr's startup, you can place a file called "startup.script" in > the plugin's config directory. The plugin will run it while starting. For now only two commands are supported: > set-card-profile and move-sink-input. But more will come if needed. > > If there are multiple files with the script-extension in this directory you can select and run them via OSD. > > Hopefully someone will find it useful. :) > > A hint for pulseaudio-newbies: if you want to use AC3 etc. passthrough over hdmi with softhddevice, select the profile > "output:hdmi-stereo", not "output:hdmi-surround". And don't forget to activate passthrough in softhddevice. It's a bit > confusing to use the stereo-profile, but it's the right one. With Kodi you have to select it as well. > > Hint 2: On my Asrock HT330 pulseaudio always forgets the selected profile. You can modify /etc/pulse/system.pa (or > default.pa) for selecting it or the plugin's startup.script. With "svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol list-cards" you can > determine the right card and profile name. > > Bug reports and feature wishes are welcome. > > Lars. > > > [1] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board99-distributionen/board96-yavdr/127885-announce-yavdr-0-6-0/ > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
