For better readability, "pactl list message-handlers" is introduced which
prints a formatted output of "pactl send-message /core list-handlers".
The patch also adds the functions pa_message_params_read_raw() and
pa_message_params_read_string() for easy parsing of the message response
string. Because the functions need to modify the parameter string,
the message handler and the pa_context_string_callback function now
receive a char* instead of a const char* as parameter argument.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/51>
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
The suspend-sink and suspend-source documentation for pacmd was quite
terse, so I copied the more complete documentation from pactl. I
couldn't resist doing some other minor edits along the way too.
Bug-link: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105907
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>
