3 Jun
2018
3 Jun
'18
10:34 p.m.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2018, at 12:44, Paul Davis wrote:
The Pulse audio API was never intended to be used by
applications. They
were supposed to continue using the ALSA API, so that Skype would work with
or without Pulse audio. If Pulse is present, a correctly written ALSA-using
application (mostly) can use it. If Pulse is absent, an ALSA-using app is
happy. By contrast, a Pulse-using app can only work if Pulse is present &
working. I don't know who within the Skype team made this decision, but it
was the wrong decision.
My own software (e.g. Sonic Visualiser) uses the Pulse API directly. It was at the time
the most reliable way I could find to make it work on systems with PulseAudio, and I added
it even though I already had some working ALSA output through PortAudio. It's possible
that the Skype developers reached a similar conclusion.
Chris