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

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Damon Chaplin wrote:

> GNOME & KDE are complete development platforms, so they need to support
> the development of audio applications.
> 
> I'm not saying they should develop new libraries. Just that they need to
> standardize on particular APIs/libraries that all work together OK.
> 
> (I think both GNOME & KDE are considering switching audio APIs at the
> moment, so now is a good time for the linux-audio community to get
> involved.)

Have you considered Polypaudio:

    http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/

The Ubuntu people are looing at replacing ESD with this one. In their
scheme, Polypaudio would use ALSA's dmix rather than direct ALSA.

Erik
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