Hi all,
While releasing yaVDR 0.6[1] (blog post will come after the holidays) I wrote a little plugin called pulsecontrol:
Announce: http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board55-vdr-plugins/127...
Source: https://github.com/flensrocker/vdr-plugin-pulsecontrol
If you use Pulseaudio for audio output, you can change some settings of it via the vdr's OSD like moving a sink-input between sinks or selecting different card profiles. You can also change the passthrough settings of a card.
If you want to select a specific card profile or sink on vdr's startup, you can place a file called "startup.script" in the plugin's config directory. The plugin will run it while starting. For now only two commands are supported: set-card-profile and move-sink-input. But more will come if needed.
If there are multiple files with the script-extension in this directory you can select and run them via OSD.
Hopefully someone will find it useful. :)
A hint for pulseaudio-newbies: if you want to use AC3 etc. passthrough over hdmi with softhddevice, select the profile "output:hdmi-stereo", not "output:hdmi-surround". And don't forget to activate passthrough in softhddevice. It's a bit confusing to use the stereo-profile, but it's the right one. With Kodi you have to select it as well.
Hint 2: On my Asrock HT330 pulseaudio always forgets the selected profile. You can modify /etc/pulse/system.pa (or default.pa) for selecting it or the plugin's startup.script. With "svdrpsend plug pulsecontrol list-cards" you can determine the right card and profile name.
Bug reports and feature wishes are welcome.
Lars.
[1] http://www.vdr-portal.de/board16-video-disk-recorder/board99-distributionen/...