[linux-audio-dev] Announcing the Polypaudio sound server

[Eric Dantan Rzewnicki]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:51:44AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Thu, 09.09.04 10:59, Robert Jonsson (rj at spamatica.se) wrote:
> Hi!
> > > I will try to push Polypaudio into both Gnome and KDE as replacement
> > > for esound resp. aRts. 
> > I'm sorry but I think this is a dead mission. People has tried for years, and 
> > years, and years... to get this sorted out somehow. 
> > The latest I heard is that they finally are settling on gstreamer as a common 
> > backend. Stirring this up again might be in vain and possibly a bad
> > idea.
> I don't think this is in vain. BTW, what were the previous efforts for
> an esound replacement?
> > But please don't take my word for it, I'm not so well informed, do try and 
> > find out more about it. If gstreamer is not the saviour there is indeed a 
> > need for one.
> Gstreamer doesn't do mixing of multiple audio streams from multiple
> distinct processes. Currently, gstreamer sits on top of esound or
> directly on OSS/ALSA. In the former case multiple programs may play
> audio simultaneously, in the latter case only one at a time.

Is this still true? ALSA has had the dmix plugin for sometime now.

-Eric Rz.