hi,
i'm thinking about doing a gsoc this year, and i'm interested if you
have any opinions on my idea. (i hope i'm not late for this...)
currently the audio system in qemu is limited to 2 channels (stereo)
sound. also it mixes all sound (if there's more than one sound card)
into a single stream, you can't send them to different physical sound
cards for example. if you need something like that, you'll have to
either pass-through a sound card (but then you can't use it from the
host), or use pulseaudio/jack/etc to send the audio over the network
(which is problematic in case of a windows guest)
imho the audio subsystem should be rewritten to support any number of
audio channels. also, the current global mix everything together into a
single output method (along with it's environment variable based
configuration, since it only allows global options, not per-device)
should be replaced, with a system similar to how network or drives works
(i.e. each virtual sound card would be connected to an audio device,
with their own options)
is it a viable idea, or i should scrap it altogether?
