8 Sep
2004
8 Sep
'04
10:58 a.m.
Hi!
I am pleased to announce version 0.4 of the Polypaudio sound
server. See
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/
for more information.
I will try to push Polypaudio into both Gnome and KDE as replacement
for esound resp. aRts. I am interested in your comments on Polypaudio.
Please comment especially on the client APIs available on
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/doxygen/
For a quick comparison with aRts/Esound see the FAQ:
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/FAQ.html
I am always interested in new devlopers: if you are interested feel
free to contact me!
polypaudio is not a sound server for professional audio, it is a sound
server for desktop environments. Please keep that in mind when
grumbling about this software.
Thanks for your time,
Lennart
--
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mail { mzft (at) 0pointer (dot) de } gpg { 1A015CC4 }
www { http://0pointer.de/lennart/ } icq# { 11060553 }
8 Sep
8 Sep
11:26 a.m.
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 10:42:29PM EST, Lennart Poettering wrote:
Hi!
I am pleased to announce version 0.4 of the Polypaudio sound
server. See
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/
for more information.
Sounds like a good project with some well layed out goals.
I will try to push Polypaudio into both Gnome and KDE
as replacement
for esound resp. aRts. I am interested in your comments on Polypaudio.
Please comment especially on the client APIs available on
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/doxygen/
According to the FAQ, you use gtkmm for the GUI tools. Since this is not shipped
with either GNOME or KDE AFAIK, I don't think the GNOME/KDE developers will
accept it unless the dependancies are changed.
Also, you state that you need a UNIX-like operating system. Do you realise that
GNOME is run on such UNIXes such as Solaris? Will this server run on such
UNIXes?
--
Luke Yelavich
http://www.audioslack.com
luke(a)audioslack.com
11:42 a.m.
On Wed, 08.09.04 23:07, Luke Yelavich (luke(a)audioslack.com) wrote:
Thanks. ;-)
There's no need in getting the GUI tools merged into Gnome. The core
of polypaudio is written in plain C, and that is all that needs to be
merged. See the GUI tools as an add-on value, for those who need it.
I am pleased
to announce version 0.4 of the Polypaudio sound
server. See
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/
for more information.
Sounds like a good project with some well layed out goals. I will try to push Polypaudio into both Gnome and
KDE as replacement
for esound resp. aRts. I am interested in your comments on Polypaudio.
Please comment especially on the client APIs available on
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/doxygen/
According to the FAQ, you use gtkmm for the GUI tools. Since this is not shipped
with either GNOME or KDE AFAIK, I don't think the GNOME/KDE developers will
accept it unless the dependancies are changed. Also, you state that you need a UNIX-like operating
system. Do you realise that
GNOME is run on such UNIXes such as Solaris? Will this server run on such
UNIXes?
Yes, I am aware of that. polypaudio uses the autotools for
building. Minor porting issues and a new sound driver module should be
enough to fix it to work on Solaris.
I've not done this porting myself since I don't have access to
Solaris machines. I am looking for someone who's willing to help out
with that...
Lennart
--
name { Lennart Poettering } loc { Hamburg - Germany }
mail { mzft (at) 0pointer (dot) de } gpg { 1A015CC4 }
www { http://0pointer.de/lennart/ } icq# { 11060553 }
9 Sep
9 Sep
7:22 a.m.
Hi Lennart,
On Wednesday 08 September 2004 14.42, Lennart Poettering wrote:
Hi!
I am pleased to announce version 0.4 of the Polypaudio sound
server. See
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/
for more information.
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.
/Robert
I am interested in your comments on Polypaudio.
Please comment especially on the client APIs available on
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/doxygen/
For a quick comparison with aRts/Esound see the FAQ:
http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/FAQ.html
I am always interested in new devlopers: if you are interested feel
free to contact me!
polypaudio is not a sound server for professional audio, it is a sound
server for desktop environments. Please keep that in mind when
grumbling about this software.
Thanks for your time,
Lennart
--
http://spamatica.se/music/
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
--
name { Lennart Poettering } loc { Hamburg - Germany }
mail { mzft (at) 0pointer (dot) de } gpg { 1A015CC4 }
www { http://0pointer.de/lennart/ } icq# { 11060553 }
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.
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