2015-10-02, 08:52
(2015-09-10, 15:06)PaulCarter Wrote:(2015-09-09, 15:10)stopdatrue Wrote: I think we should create a launchpad repo for dual audio, forked from the team-xbmc's one, may be it will encourage them to merge the patch in mainline.
Good idea, I'll try to create on once I've done the merge and run some tests. Hopefully that will make it easier to keep up to date as Kodi evolves.
@PaulCarter @stopdatrue I support the idea of creating a ppa with recent version of Kodi and the DA patch applied. I would love to do it myself or to help, but I'm not to familiar with creating and maintaining ppa's, and I'm so short on time atm
I think we should have two ppa's: 1) with the latest official Kodi version (currently 15.2 RC2, while still adding the latest stable version too, 15.1) and 2) a version for the always upcoming main version, in this case Jarvis. The Jarvis version needs to be tested with the patch as there are some audio reworks done, it might now work anymore.
The Jarvis version is of course not a priority, but once it hits beta or RC, it might be nice to include it.
Would be great to have a version for RP1 and 2, as Pi2 is really a great little device with awesome capabilities. If you use OE on Pi, then you lose all the possibilities of adding other software to it, since it is too much closed. Not sure if ppa can be used on Raspbian. There is already Jessie version of Raspbian, and it works great.
To everybody: please note, this patch in this form will never ever be part of official Kodi code. This has been discussed several times already, and we also contacted devs few weeks ago (read back a little). This is really a "not nice" hack and they can not include. Until somebody doesn't decide to write a proper code (much harder then we thought initially), we are left with DA patch (until it works), hopefully in a separate always updated ppa and with AudioProfile switching for those who don't need simultaneous audio output (like me). Also note, using the DA patch, the two audio channels are not kept in sync (one of the main reasons this will never be part of Kodi officially). I don't really see a scenario where you would like to use both audio outputs at the same time, but who know what users want.
