Hi everyone, from the user perspective I guess that the most common use case is connecting a laptop to a TV. In this case the automatic switching of the audio would be sensible. If someone has a sound system chances are has already better ways to play media (consoles, media centers, etc) and If Ubuntu is used in a box as media center, asking to the user to change the configuration only once when set it up is not much to ask.
>From what is worth, I also agree that this behavior might be different on other devices, so it should be easy to override. Cheers, chr On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 2012-03-16, pią o godzinie 09:51 +0100, Tom Gundersen pisze: > > I guess a common case is to connect to a TV over HDMI, and that most > > TV's correctly report audio capabilities (as they have at least an > > inbuilt 10W speaker). However, unless the TV is connected to proper > > external speakers (which I guess we cannot tell?), I assume the HDMI > > audio should be the last preference and not be switched to > > automatically? > > What's more, the TVs usually won't relay (at least pass-through) sound > that's coming to it over HDMI to external amplifiers. But if you have an > external amplifier, you will most likely connect through it anyway. > > I'm thinking the only use-case when switching to HDMI audio would not be > desirable would be when you use a different connection (say, SPDIF) to > an amplifier. > > BTW, do optical connectors support sensing at all? > -- > Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> >
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