9 Sep
2004
9 Sep
'04
3:44 p.m.
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:51:44AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
On Thu, 09.09.04 10:59, Robert Jonsson
(rj(a)spamatica.se) wrote:
Hi!
I don't think this is in vain. BTW, what were the previous efforts for
an esound replacement?
Is this still true? ALSA has had the dmix plugin for sometime now.
-Eric Rz.
I will
try to push Polypaudio into both Gnome and KDE as replacement
for esound resp. aRts.
I'm sorry but I think this is a dead mission. People
has tried for years, and
years, and years... to get this sorted out somehow.
The latest I heard is that they finally are settling on gstreamer as a common
backend. Stirring this up again might be in vain and possibly a bad
idea. But please don't take my word for it, I'm
not so well informed, do try and
find out more about it. If gstreamer is not the saviour there is indeed a
need for one.
Gstreamer doesn't do mixing of multiple audio streams from
multiple
distinct processes. Currently, gstreamer sits on top of esound or
directly on OSS/ALSA. In the former case multiple programs may play
audio simultaneously, in the latter case only one at a time.