29 Jul
2005
29 Jul
'05
7:44 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 23:32 +0200, Christoph Eckert wrote:
I don't think he's wrong. The 95% of apps that just want to do voip and
play movies can use the "dumbed down" KDE sound system, and an app like
Hydrogen will use QT4 but bypass the KDE sound system and use JACK for
audio.
Lee
Please say
good-bye to the thought of jack as the
soundserver for everything. Jack is for professional raw
datastreams with very little latency. For the typical
desktop-app/game its irrelevant how much latency there is
(if its not 2 secs)
sorry, wrong. What about the gamers? What about keeping audio
and video in sync? What about the (still missing) Garage Band
clone on the KDE desktop?
All of these will need low latency, and especially Garage Band
is a product for Amateur use.
We're on free software, and there's no need (at least from a
technical POV) to deny desktop users the use of low latency
audio and video. We're at an important "point of no return":
We can make the right decision *now* or the audio and video
struggle will continue.