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[Christian Giordano <christian.giordano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone, from the user perspective I guess that the most common use
case is connecting a laptop to a TV. In this case the automatic switching
of the audio would be sensible. If someone has a sound system chances are
has already better ways to play media (consoles, media centers, etc) and If
Ubuntu is used in a box as media center, asking to the user to change the
configuration only once when set it up is not much to ask.

>From what is worth, I also agree that this behavior might be different on
other devices, so it should be easy to override.


Cheers, chr


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Michał Sawicz <michal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dnia 2012-03-16, pią o godzinie 09:51 +0100, Tom Gundersen pisze:
> > I guess a common case is to connect to a TV over HDMI, and that most
> > TV's correctly report audio capabilities (as they have at least an
> > inbuilt 10W speaker). However, unless the TV is connected to proper
> > external speakers (which I guess we cannot tell?), I assume the HDMI
> > audio should be the last preference and not be switched to
> > automatically?
>
> What's more, the TVs usually won't relay (at least pass-through) sound
> that's coming to it over HDMI to external amplifiers. But if you have an
> external amplifier, you will most likely connect through it anyway.
>
> I'm thinking the only use-case when switching to HDMI audio would not be
> desirable would be when you use a different connection (say, SPDIF) to
> an amplifier.
>
> BTW, do optical connectors support sensing at all?
> --
> Michał Sawicz <michal@xxxxxxxxxx>
>