Re: Sound card not working

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:27:04PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 01:29:39PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> > > Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have to say that since alsa started shipping with dmix by
> > > > default, it all works *much* better. But its still confusing and
> > > > is (to my mind at least) sucn an esoteric subject that its kind
> > > > of all like blackmagic to make it work properly.
> > >
> > > PulseAudio is the future:
> > >
> > > http://www.pulseaudio.org/
> >
> > so is it really the future?
>
> They claim it is "ESD done right", so I think they aim to replace ESD
> in GNOME.
>
> It doesn't need to be a standard, as they also say on the site, 90% of
> existing Linux sound apps can use it already.
>
> It supports apps that use ESD, ALSA, GStreamer. Xine and Mplayer have
> support for it's native protocol.

yeah, it looks very cool and very promising. I like the apparently simple networking and combining of sources and sinks. very very interesting.

>
> > A
>

heh. we don't have to sign off anymore... just quote each other.

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