9 Sep
2004
9 Sep
'04
8:08 a.m.
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?
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.
Gnome still ships with broken, old esound. And that is what I want to
replace.
Lennart
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