Comment 49 for bug 25632

@Peter Antoniac, @Phil.

Yes, it is close.

(THIS PARTICULAR BUG)

At least until further notice.

I'm using Karmic Koala, and like every development version, it crashes often. A couple ot these crashes, occurred while I was watching movies on VLC (SPDIF output) and the PCM sound don't close at all.

I even, for the sake of testing, reset my desktop - before writing these lines - while playing sound over spdif, just to make sure.

I don't recommend using it on a production machine.

Wait until Karmic Koala hits Alpha 5 at least, things are about to be edgy for now own.

This is a screenshot of the new advanced pulse audio control

http://i43.tinypic.com/2573e52.png (don't try to set to output digital. it won't work yet)

See, this is the _REAL ISSUE_ here.

A proper SPDIF environment setup is also crucial to the increase deployment of GNU/Linux on the Desktop.

This must be a high priority!

Ubuntu as the major GNU/Linux distro should put more effort behind it.

There is a Google Summer of Code Project trying to implement passthrough on FFMPEG

http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2009#S.2FPDIF_muxer

I hope they make it.

I, for one, dream still with gstreamer proper SPDIF support.

Just working out of the box.

Thanks for reading.