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How would this work for gaming and phone calls? How would the operating system know whether you're playing music, or gaming/phone calls? Would you want your OS
by Aardwolf 4y ago
How would this work for gaming and phone calls? How would the operating system know whether you're playing music, or gaming/phone calls? Would you want your OS to know whether you're playing music or gaming? (personally I wouldn't, since not for every application it'll be obvious what it is and it's guaranteed OS will make annoying wrong choices)
- justeleblanc 4y ago> Would you want your OS to know whether you're playing music or gaming? ... Is that a trick question? Yes. My OS is not a malevolent entity from which I should hide everything. It's going to know it anyway. Who sends audio packets to the sound card?!
- vetinari 4y agoEasily, just like any other passthrough. It doesn't need to know what the application is, just what the application is trying to do. So application would check the capabilities of the audio sink, compare that with properties of the source, and if they match, just shuffle the buffers without decoding; let that be a concern later in the pipeline (i.e. hardware). Done.