From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tanu Kaskinen Subject: Re: Logical device name for 4-channel microphones? Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:11:28 +0300 Message-ID: <1335359488.2257.24.camel@laptop> References: <1335011052.2268.18.camel@laptop> <4F96B3ED.3070007@ladisch.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com (out3-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04744104925 for ; Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:11:31 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Takashi Iwai Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, Clemens Ladisch List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Tue, 2012-04-24 at 16:09 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:08:45 +0200, > Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > > > Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > > My problem is that I'd like to make Pulseaudio handle 4-channel webcam > > > microphones[2], but I'm not aware of any input device names for > > > 4-channel devices. Are there such device names? > > > > These device name are useful only for device types that are generic > > enough. Four-channel microphones aren't. > > Hm, we have already surround51 or such specific one, so it's not too > bad to have a definition for multi-channel mics. OTOH, surround51 & > co were the possible cause of confusions, as there are way too many > surround types. A generic type with the channels argument might be > more generic? > > In anyway, I think it's fine to define some new generic name. Alright then, what should be the name? Here's one proposal: "4channelinput". -- Tanu