Re: [LAD] Guide to Linux Sound APIs - Linux-audio-dev

29 Sep 2008

That was not my experience. I put together a pulseaudio IO module
for Csound using the simple API (pulse/simple.h) in about half an hour.
It seemed much simpler than any alternative. And it seemed to do
everything I needed from it.

Victor

At 13:59 29/09/2008, you wrote:
...
 On Sun, 28.09.08 09:38, Paul Davis
(paul(a)linuxaudiosystems.com) wrote:

   Also, I
guess it depends on how you upgrade, because my workstation is
 8.04, which is upgraded every year or so for 2 years and a half now,
 and I don't have pulseaudio. One of the package I wan't to add sound
 support for is for science mostly, and many people are still using
 Ubuntu Dapper, Fedora 3, etc...

 So it does not look like pulseaudio is that great if you want to
 support various linux and have very little needs for audio. 
 As Lennart tried to make reasonably clear, the primary goal of
 PulseAudio is NOT to act as a new API, but to act as a new
 *infrastructure* that supports existing APIs transparently.
 I am sure that he would be happy if it eventually takes over the world
 and everybody writes apps using its API, but that doesn't appear to be
 the goal right now. 
The reason why I don't ask application developers at this time to
adopt the native PA API is that it is a relatively complex API since
all calls are asynchronous. It's comprehensive and not redundant, but
simply too complex for everyone but the most experienced.

Lennart

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