[LAD] alsa and OSS (again?)

[Marc-Olivier Barre]

On Jan 20, 2008 2:22 PM, Jay Vaughan <jayv at synth.net> wrote:
> >> Does this mean that pulseaudio is preferred to Jack?
> >
> > For desktop and user applications yes, for professional audio no.
> >
>
>
> There should be no distinction.  The fact that there is, means that
> the designs are broken.  Audio should just plain work - period.

It takes quite some work to design an audio application that will be
realtime safe. Multimedia players don't bother (why should they ?)
thus they can't be good jack clients (although, some of them are, but
it's not a prerequisite for a player). This doesn't prevent them from
being (eventually) good pulseaudio client.

If you wish to see one day every Linux desktop PC with realtime audio
working right just to play an simple audio file... You'll have to wait
quite a long time :-p
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