What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

[Andy Wingo]

Hi Christoph,

On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 18:09 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
> > 1. You don't need GNOME or KDE support to develop audio
> > applications any more than you need their support for
> > accessing files, the network, the display or whatever. So
> > they should remain neutral on this matter.
> 
> I absolutely agree. But why did they start to use 
> arts/esound/gstreamer?

GStreamer is not a sound server. It is more like Windows' DirectShow, or
Quicktime in MacOS.

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Andy Wingo
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