3 Jun
2018
3 Jun
'18
4:32 a.m.
On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 8:17 PM, Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> wrote:
They still have a native ALSA backend and there's even a JACK one
available.
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 07:44:39AM -0400, Paul Davis
wrote:
There's a lot to the Pulse API that doesn't overlap with ALSA at all, and
is used by Pulse-centric utility applications. Network routing, application
volume control, device switching and more.
Pulse includes an audio I/O API mostly for completeness and testing; that
doesn't mean it was intended for use by other applications (and indeed, it
was not).
BTW, Firefox seems to have gone the same way as Skype.
The Pulse audio API was never intended to be used
by applications.
Then why does it exist ? :-) The API doesn't look worse
than ALSA's user space 'plug' mess which never worked
well except in some simple cases (try stacking a few
'plugs' and keep the result stable).