remixing-produce-lfe controls upmixing, and remixing-consume-lfe
controls downmixing. The motivation is that a user might want to
synthesize LFE while playing stereo audio on his/her 5.1 speakers,
but at the same time follow the industry recommendation to omit
the LFE channel when producting a stereo downmix (e.g. for headphones)
from 5.1 content. Or the other way round.
Fixes: #753.
Almost all distributions patch the configuration to disable
flat-volumes, because users tend to find the concept confusing (and it
also causes nasty surprises when some application pushes the volume to
100%). Let's remove the need for patching and disable the feature by
default.
Fixes: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/issues/691
This adds an "avoid-resampling" option to daemon.conf that makes the
daemon try to use the stream sample rate if possible (the device needs
to support it, which currently only ALSA does), and there should not be
any other stream connected).
This should enable some of the "audiophile" use-cases where users wish
to play high sample rate audio files without resampling.
We still will do conversion if sample formats don't match, though. This
means that if you want to play 96 kHz/24 bit audio without any
modification the default format will need to be set to be 24-bit as
well. This will force all streams to be upconverted, which, other than
the wasted resources, should be relatively harmless.
The current LFE crossover filter removes low frequencies from the main
channels and puts them into the LFE channel with the wrong amplitude.
It is not known for sure what is the correct relative amplitude (acoustic
measurements are required with real hardware), and changing that might
introduce a new bug, "it clips the LFE channel".
So just disable the feature by default until a better understanding
emerges how it should work. This, essentially, returns the defaults
to their state as of PulseAudio 6.0.
Some more observations:
- Most of available active analog speakers on the market do the
necessary crossover filtering already, and HDMI receivers can be
configured to do that, too, so a crossover filter in PulseAudio is
harmful in these use cases.
- The "laptop with a builtin subwoofer" use case requires manual
configuration anyway because the default crossover frequency (120 Hz) is
wrong for laptop speakers.
- Finally, Windows 10 with a built-in USB audio driver does not synthesize
the LFE channel given a 5.1 card and a stereo audio stream by default.
Hides: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95021
Signed-off-by: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com>
Now that all layers in the stack support memfd blocks, add memfd
support for the daemon's global core mempool. Also introduce
"enable-memfd=" daemon argument and configuration option.
For now, memfd support is an opt-in feature to be activated only
when daemon's enable-memfd= is set to yes.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
I want to enable client.conf.d, because in OpenEmbedded-core we have
a graphical environment called Sato that runs as root. Sato needs to
set allow-autospawn-for-root=true in client.conf, but the default
configuration in OpenEmbedded-core should not set that option. With
this patch, I can create a Sato-specific package that simply installs
50-sato.conf in /etc/pulse/client.conf.d without conflicting with the
main client.conf coming from a different package.
daemon.conf.d is enabled just because it would be strange to not
support it while client.conf.d is supported.
When crossover_freq is set to 0, this restores the old behaviour
of letting the LFE channel be the average of the source channels,
without additional processing. This can be useful e g in case the
user already has a hardware crossover.
Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
Add a user defined parameter lfe-crossover-freq for the lfe-filter,
to pass this parameter to the lfe-filter, we need to change the
pa_resampler_new() API as well.
Signed-off-by: Hui Wang <hui.wang@canonical.com>
FSF addresses used in PA sources are no longer valid and rpmlint
generates numerous warnings during packaging because of this.
This patch changes all FSF addresses to FSF web page according to
the GPL how-to: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
Done automatically by sed-ing through sources.
The journal is a component of systemd, that captures Syslog messages,
Kernel log messages, initial RAM disk and early boot messages as well
as messages written to STDOUT/STDERR of all services, indexes them and
makes this available to the user.
It can be used in parallel, or in place of a traditional syslog daemon,
such as rsyslog or syslog-ng.
The journal offers a couple of improvements over traditional logging
facilities (e.g. advanced filtering capabilities).
This patch adds support for logging directly to the journal using its
native API.
This consumes less power, has low (no?) perceivable difference, and
allows the default configuration to work out of the box on low-end
systems (such as netbooks).
This just covers Lennart's concern over the terminology used.
The majority of this change is simply the following command:
grep -rli sync[-_]volume . | xargs sed -i 's/sync_volume/deferred_volume/g;s/PA_SINK_SYNC_VOLUME/PA_SINK_DEFERRED_VOLUME/g;s/PA_SOURCE_SYNC_VOLUME/PA_SOURCE_DEFERRED_VOLUME/g;s/sync-volume/deferred-volume/g'
Some minor tweaks were added on top to tidy up formatting and
a couple of phrases were clarified too.
Based on comments from Arun Raghavan, make clear that we're referring
to the libspeex API documentation for the speex- options. Also correct
the quality range (was incorrectly 0..9 but is 0..10 now) and clean up
the line length.
Signed-off-by: Daniel T Chen <crimsun@ubuntu.com>
A Debian user seemed confused that the man page for pulse-daemon.conf
does not refer to the libspeex API Resampler for use in PulseAudio's
*-src. Fix it by explicitly mentioning speex.
(http://bugs.debian.org/541206)
Signed-off-by: Daniel T Chen <crimsun@ubuntu.com>
