[vdr] Re: VDR plugins - RFC - audio handling

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

> I have a wish. For the new version, i would like to be able to support
> multiple audio out devices for all players (VDR, DVD, VCD, ...).

Yes, would be a nice improvement.

> For that to work, the most important change for vdr will be to mark every
> audio packet on the input side with a destination device id and packet type
> (DD, DTS, PCM, MPEG), with 0 (zero) being the DVB card and any id > 0 being
> an additional device handled by some kind of audio plugin.
> This will have the biggest impact on the transfer mode as it mostly handles
> data as a transparent data stream.

Eventually it might be required to time-stamp the suggested time-of-output at 
each packet as well?