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[raspberry_pd]

@leroyz84: you've been a bit pushy in this thread so I can understand that you're not necessarily getting the usual level of XBian friendliness. Perhaps we can keep things a little more neutral toned and that would help?

We've had some discussions about getting simultaneous analog and HDMI audio happening recently and that has touched on very similar issues ...

- Is it a Raspi firmware/hardware limitation
- Is it an XBMC limitation
- Oh but distribution X or Y does it, why can't XBian

In a relatively backwards way, in getting pushy about this, you are displaying a preference for XBian instead of the other distributions so that is a backwards compliment for which I. at least. thank you.

I'm sure everyone also appreciates your willingness to spend time on this problem.

At the risk of being unreasonably critical of a 'sister' distribution, in the analog+HDMI discussion, I think it was raised that the way Raspbmc has achieved some of their audio feats is not necessarily without complications and obviously Koennk has said, and I think rightfully, that when ALSA support becomes available in XBMC, XBian will be able to implement more audio functionality such as analog+HDMI and the USB audio you are requesting.

You can see information about the analog_HDMI issue here: http://forum.xbian.org/thread-66.html That will contain some of the background I have referred to above. There is also an issue in the XBian github repo here: https://github.com/xbianonpi/xbian/issues/172#issuecomment-11613538

Those are examples of more friendly ways to go about getting your request into the system. Best of luck.