[linux-audio-dev] desktop audio resumed

[Christoph Eckert]

> There's absolutely no need for the sound server, it's just
> bloat.

Maybe. But I think at the time where the soundservers have 
been introduced it was a wise decision.

If KDE and Gnome choose to support Gstreamer in the future, it 
will be more than just a soundserver. AFAIK it can also share 
and pipe other media stuff like video between applications. I 
currently have the same prob with video as DMIX solved for 
audio: I have a webcam and want to use it in two 
applications, but as soon as /dev/video0 is used by one 
application, it's blocked - the story will be continued ;-) .

> > So, the mess will persist. I'm really glad that the ALSA
> > team has put efforts in DMIX and enabled it per default
> > so multiple soundservers can coexist.
>
> It would be really depressing if people actually got the
> idea that this was OK "now that we have dmix".  DMIX should
> be seen as a reason to deprecate the sound servers.

Would be great, but I'm not sure if this will happen.


Thanks & best regards


    ce