Surround sound pass-through.

mcd2000 · Post by **mcd2000** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 7:36 am

As we all know, Logitech Revue do not allow direct Dolby/DTS output to a receiver.
I have a crazy idea:
Android 3 has USBHost api, which should allow connection of in theory any device. What if we han take some cheap USB sound card with opensource driver, rewrite some part of this driver in Java Android Api and make it passthrough. I am not good in writing drivers and not sure if it is even possible. But sounds cool.

Discovered · Post by **Discovered** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:34 am

wouldn't you need root?

mcd2000 · Post by **mcd2000** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:43 am

Discovered wrote:wouldn't you need root?

As it will use official USB Host API (http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/usb/host.html), it will not be a real driver - just USB protocol implementation in user space. So, I should not require rooting.

Discovered · Post by **Discovered** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 6:12 pm

but root would be needed to install the api right.

mcd2000 · Post by **mcd2000** » Wed Dec 14, 2011 11:26 pm

NO. This api is a part of Android Honeycomb.

Discovered · Post by **Discovered** » Thu Dec 15, 2011 6:25 am

ahh. I wish i would just wake up with root. just to make things easier.

omiazad · Post by **omiazad** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 5:41 am

I tried with a USB sound card yesterday. Nothing happens. :S

Discovered · Post by **Discovered** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:56 am

You cannot just plug in and play. its not that easy.

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