[LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

Joseph M. Gaffney CuCullin at WtFisThat.net
Sun Jan 20 19:14:13 UTC 2008


Arnold Krille wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 20. Januar 2008 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo:
>   
>> victor wrote:
>>     
>>> Does this mean that pulseaudio is preferred to Jack?
>>>       
>> For desktop and user applications yes, for professional audio no.
>>     
>
> If you want to repeat the mistakes of KDE[23] and aRts, then go on. Otherwise 
> don't rely on just one soundsystem on the desktop. Use some kind of 
> media-framework that provides one API/ABI to several multimedia-systems...
>
> Arnold
>   
Unless theres some reason I can't think of, why not use the "some kind 
of media-framework" KDE already made - phonon?

-Joe



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