[alsa-devel] user defined plugin and namehint

14 Feb 2014


      Hi,
I created a new plugin in asound.conf and I would like it to appear in
the list presented with aplay -L as this is the list used by my media
player (vlc) to offer the option to choose my playback device.
I have tried this:
pcm.rate96000Hz {
        type hw
        card 0
        device 0
        rate 96000
        hint {
                show on
                description "96000Hz rate output"
        }
}
It seems that it is missing the small magic used by standard specs. ie:
from front.conf:
hint {
                show {
                        @func refer
                        name defaults.namehint.basic
                }
                description "Front speakers"
                device $DEV
        }
Background problem:
I have a flac audio file with 88.2 kHz sampling rate 24 bits and the
player is opening the playback device at 48kHz and downsample my file.
...
From the ui, there doesn't seem to be a way to fine tune these params. I
will bring the discussion to vlc dev as well.
Thank you,

[alsa-devel] user defined plugin and namehint

Olivier Langlois