[mythtv] PulseAudio output [was jack layer rewrite?]

[Ma Begaj]

2008/6/26 Ashley Bostock <abostock at gmail.com>:
> 2008/6/26 cal <cal at graggrag.com>:
>> cal wrote:
>>> Driven by Ed W's comment way back when, I've been working on pulseaudio
>>> output for myth. As is, it mostly works (quite nicely!), and I hope soon
>>> to put it on a ticket.
>>
>>  voila, <http://svn.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/5473>
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> Just out of pure curiosity, what does pulseaudio support in myth
> provide? any nice benefits to the user?
>

As I read a few weeks ago,  it can switch on-the-fly sound output from
one card to another, which is pretty useful (at least to me). I could
finally use my A2DP bluetooth headphones on the fly, without stopping
the video/music and without changing sound device in the mythfrontend
configuration.