[linux-audio-dev] desktop audio resumed

[Jan Holst Jensen]

> > There's absolutely no need for the sound server,
> it's just bloat.
> 
> What about in a networked/thin client environment?
> The application will
> be on another machine from the audio interface.

Virtual sound device with ALSA on top of that is one
model. The audio abstraction is then at the level of
streaming a single PCM stream to the thin client. No
different than handling an ordinary sound device.

> Or how about supporting OSes that don't have any
> support for mixing
> themselves, or only allow one process to use the
> audio interface.
> 
> Do we need an audio server to handle these cases?

As Lee wrote a bit further up:

> > So in your GNOME app you call 
> > gnome_play_sound(&filehandle) and the
> > Gnome middle layer snd_pcm_write()s it on an ALSA
> > system, write()s
> > to /dev/dsp on an OSS system, and delivers it to
> > the DirectSound or
> > whatever on Windows, depending on the system it
> > was compiled for.

Cheers
-- Jan


		
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