31 Aug
2008
31 Aug
'08
2:43 p.m.
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:38:58AM -0600, Stephen Doonan wrote:
I just wonder whether, from a Linux audio/MIDI users
point of view,
PulseAudio is intended to become a replacement for ALSA (and that
therefore I ought to learn more about PulseAudio) or whether it will
be regarded as more of a nuisance, another level of complexity, and
that it might be better to try to be pure ALSA instead, with Gnome
and KDE sound servers disabled if possible.
Reading the PulseAudio site and following a few links it looks to me
as though PulseAudio is essentially a replacement for jack, ie. it's a
server that links sound applications together. On ALSA-only systems
it uses ALSA to connect to the hardware. However it looks as though
it can also sit on top of JACK:
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#JACKConnectivity
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-548178.html
I'd like to know what PulseAudio offers that jack doesn't. Is it the
networking?
Regards,
Jeremy Henty