6 Jul
2005
6 Jul
'05
7:34 p.m.
There's absolutely no need for the sound server,
it's just
bloat.
Maybe. But I think at the time where the soundservers have
been introduced it was a wise decision.
If KDE and Gnome choose to support Gstreamer in the future, it
will be more than just a soundserver. AFAIK it can also share
and pipe other media stuff like video between applications. I
currently have the same prob with video as DMIX solved for
audio: I have a webcam and want to use it in two
applications, but as soon as /dev/video0 is used by one
application, it's blocked - the story will be continued ;-) .
So, the mess
will persist. I'm really glad that the ALSA
team has put efforts in DMIX and enabled it per default
so multiple soundservers can coexist.
It would be really depressing if people actually got the
idea that this was OK "now that we have dmix". DMIX should
be seen as a reason to deprecate the sound servers.