Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] passthrough audio (eg. AC3 / DTS / WM9)

2009-10-06 Thread pl bossart
Just make sure PA doesn't grab the device, and then tell your app to use the low-level spdif-pass-thru directly. How that is configured has nothing to do with PA, and in fact stays exactly the same whether you run PA or not. You could use the device reservation utilities for this. When you

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] passthrough audio (eg. AC3 / DTS / WM9)

2009-10-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 05.10.09 05:11, Sean McNamara (smc...@gmail.com) wrote: I would surmise that PulseAudio is probably not for you if you want to do this. There is no optional mixing in PulseAudio; everything is mixed in software. I don't even know if PA has a way to tell client applications sorry, but

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] passthrough audio (eg. AC3 / DTS / WM9)

2009-10-05 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 05.10.09 14:30, Dave Moore (davewantsmo...@gmail.com) wrote: Hi Everyone. I'm really sorry if this has been covered before, I've read back through the past 6 months list history and found nothing and my OS (ubuntu) and application support forums/lists are not being very helpful.

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] passthrough audio (eg. AC3 / DTS / WM9)

2009-10-05 Thread pl bossart
If you need ac3 pass-thru then you need to bypass PA. Just make sure you are not using the SPDIF port for PA (use g-v-c or pavucontrol and make sure the sound card is notconfigured for any of the 'digital iec985' modes). If you use AC3 pass-thru, what you are really sending over the SPDIF

[pulseaudio-discuss] passthrough audio (eg. AC3 / DTS / WM9)

2009-10-04 Thread Dave Moore
Hi Everyone. I'm really sorry if this has been covered before, I've read back through the past 6 months list history and found nothing and my OS (ubuntu) and application support forums/lists are not being very helpful. I would like to pass digital audio completely unaltered (bit-stream) to