Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] fix profile configurations for IEC/SPDIF outputs

2010-06-21 Thread Jens Peters
pl bossart wrote: > If your source is 5.1, it came from an encoded AC3/DD file. That's not entirely correct. There are more 5.1 formats than AC3/DD like e.g. flac 5.1. On the Windows world there are also a lot of games that can produce 5.1 sound, don't know if that's possible on linux yet thou

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Pulseaudio and Java

2010-06-05 Thread Jens Peters
Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using pulseaudio in per-user mode (as directed). From firefox I > visited a webpage with an embedded java applet (Text Twist from > notoriously unfriendly yahoo!) and found that java has seized control of > /dev/dsp. pulseaudio applications which typically

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Two outputs

2009-12-28 Thread Jens Peters
On 23-12-2009 7:08, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: Actually, there's another way. Profiles can be configured in the files under /usr/share/pulseaudio/alsa-mixer/profile-sets/. The easiest approach is to just edit default.conf in that directory. It takes some time to actually understand how those configurat

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] specifying ALSA mixer control

2009-03-26 Thread Jens Peters
Lennart Poettering wrote: > I doubt that it would be so useful to expose this in PA anyway. I > mean, how realistic is it wanting to drive both SPDIF and analog audio > at the same time from the same sound card? Appears to be a very exotic > niche usage to me. Please don't forget the combination o

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] digital devices (spdif)

2009-01-05 Thread Jens Peters
>On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:09:55 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote: Hallo and thanks a lot for your reply. > The first part is to support SPDIF at all (i.e. for PCM), the next step > is than to add pass-through CODEC support. It is rather unlikely that we > will add compression/decompression support f

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Development proposals

2009-01-05 Thread Jens Peters
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:06:10 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Thanks for the feedback :) > > I'm not totally convinced that what you suggest is actually a simpler > approach tho'! > > Without giving it too much thought, to do it this way would require > changes to the protocol to allow the client a

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Development proposals

2009-01-04 Thread Jens Peters
> I've written up a couple of proposals for improvements I'd like to see > in the way pulse handles default devices (the last two) About proposal #3: A simpler solution could be to extend the move menu in the ui, something like: Move stream for current session to sink ... Move stream permanently

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] digital devices (spdif)

2009-01-03 Thread Jens Peters
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 12:10:13 +, Colin Guthrie wrote: > Well you clearly know the score and what needs doing to make it kinda > work! I think you make good points about being able to dynamically > reconfigure sinks etc with different options. > > Lennart, do you have any plans in this area? I

[pulseaudio-discuss] digital devices (spdif)

2009-01-03 Thread Jens Peters
Hello there, Before I begin I want to say that pulseaudio is really one of the coolest peaces of software on Linux I have seen in the last years. It took me some time to get the whole picture and where to place pulse exactly, but once I got it the setup was quite easy (using Ubuntu 8.10 with G