This sounds like a very useful plugin. Thanks for your work!

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Lars Hanisch <d...@flensrocker.de> 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/
>
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