On Sa, 2015-03-07 at 03:39 +0100, Kővágó Zoltán wrote: > 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...)
Should not be too late for this, deadline is a week out. > 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 I don't think you have to put *everything* upside down. As far I know the mixing and the two channels are not designed into the audio core code. > (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) For the audio backend configuration a serious makeover would be very good indeed. > is it a viable idea, or i should scrap it altogether? Sounds good, go ahead, I can mentor this. cheers, Gerd
