ALSA: use plughw rather than hw for manually selected output

plughw provides transparent userspace format conversion if needed.
That is much safer. In fact, I doubt VLC would support all raw hardware
drivers - some have rather weird format requirements.

diff --git a/modules/audio_output/alsa.c b/modules/audio_output/alsa.c
index 62693b3f41d14dccf79590598e937adca3e95621..146e11d802ea34e4fc153c8b73db18ff01e576d6 100644 (file)
--- a/modules/audio_output/alsa.c
+++ b/modules/audio_output/alsa.c
@@ -1005,13 +1005,13 @@ static void GetDevicesForCard( vlc_object_t *obj, module_config_t *p_item,
             continue;
         }
 
-        if( asprintf( &psz_device, "hw:%d,%d", i_card, i_pcm_device ) == -1 )
-            break;
+        if( asprintf( &psz_device, "plughw:%u,%u", i_card, i_pcm_device ) == -1 )
+            continue;
         if( asprintf( &psz_descr, "%s: %s (%s)", psz_card_name,
                   snd_pcm_info_get_name(p_pcm_info), psz_device ) == -1 )
         {
             free( psz_device );
-            break;
+            continue;
         }
 
         msg_Dbg( obj, "  %s", psz_descr );