pulseaudio capability question

[Kevin Kofler]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> Then, while it is at it, accept already encoded audio streams
> from a DVD I'm playing and bypass the ffmpeg layer for them.

AFAIK, this one is planned, but not supported yet...

> I would love to learn I can insert an output filter to use
> ffmpeg to do on the fly conversion of all my audio to something
> that can be sent to the SP/DIF optical output on my motherboard.

... and this one is not even planned at this point.

You could of course write your own sound server using the PulseAudio network
protocol and encoding your audio on the fly.

        Kevin Kofler