[vlc-devel] [PATCH 3/4] aout: propose a "Direct" choice in Output Mode

[Thomas Guillem]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2018, at 12:38, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le vendredi 30 mars 2018, 14:57:11 EEST Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> > This choice is only proposed for compatible es tracks and when the aout
> > module can't fetch the passthrough preference from the OS (this is the case
> > for mmdevice, cf. next commit).
> 
> Nack. OS-specific audio settings do not belong in the core API. You even made 
> the exact same argument for Android very recently.

This means that 2 OSes need this OS-specific audio settings. I also would like to have macOS using it too instead of the "(Encoded)" device (but this need to be discussed with macOS devs).

Windows is the must used OS by VLC, I think we can give him a specific API.

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> Rémi Denis-Courmont
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