Despite fact that Oblomow's idea/experiment is great "side-channel" attack on our current problem and I'm very thankful for it, it's not exactly like that.

Standard output is unaffected there - it's just that, at some point (close to end) You're "splitting" output to two sources. "cloning" it. Now, this second branch, is directed @ external DAC.

This approach seems to be most resource-intensive, as device is doing the same sound-related work literally twice (well, except actual media decoding). Which, of course doesn't change the fact, that investigating recaller code was a brilliant idea, and I would not think about something like that in thousand years.

Still - correct me if I'm wrong - we can't scavenge knowledge learned here, to achieve our main goal. What about investigating Maemo's pulseaudio code? Maybe it's really some "uncomment" work to allow hassle-free redirecting of output (like disabled mouse)?

/Estel

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And what about mafw-wrapper? Is it closed source? Maybe we can alter it to pout sound to external DAC instead of pulseaudio?