>> As part of the passthrough/compressed data support in PulseAudio, we >> need to disable monitoring. The main use of monitoring is to build >> peakmeters to show volume information, and that just doesn't make >> sense for compressed raw data.... > > I have also been using it several times to record things as streaming music, > skype conversations etc. So I would say that the peak meters are not the > only main usage of monitoring. > > Also, we always have a sink and a source, because of module-auto-sink that > adds a null sink (and a monitor of that) if no sinks exists. If we end up > having no sources at all, would that open up a can of worms? > > I would say to go with keeping the monitoring source - either decode it, > leave the raw data as it is, or write zeroes, whatever we conclude is the > best way to go.
Just to be clear, what I am proposing is to disable monitoring sources only for the case where a sink supports compressed data. Null sink doesn't so there's no change of functionality. You could push silence instead, but that's a pretty much a waste of resources; I don't see any need for monitoring for compressed data at all for a pass-through mode... If you need to decode, it has to be done upstream. -Pierre _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@mail.0pointer.de https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
