[MPlayer-users] pulseaudio failing at passthrough

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 08:11:03PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:52:50PM +0100, Alexander Roalter wrote:
> > If I play back AC3 audio with ao pulse and S/PDIF passthrough, I get
> 
> Passthrough with pulseaudio is a mess, it requires us to use a new API,
> which means either detecting if it is available or dropping support
> for old versions

I just realized that passthrough in pulseaudio was only added last year,
so removing support for old versions definitely isn't an option.
Also, unless I can get passthrough to work on my system (didn't work out
so far) I definitely won't be working on this.