31 Aug
2008
31 Aug
'08
4:48 p.m.
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:37:34 -0600, Stephen Doonan wrote:
I recently installed Fedora 9, then Ubuntu Hardy Heron
and the
UbuntuStudio packages. In both cases, a new soundserver (new to me),
PulseAudio, was installed by default and has caused me some confusion
and frustration.
What is the feeling among Linux audio users about PulseAudio?
Is it a good development? Will it eventually replace ALSA, or does it
instead simply add an additional level or layer of abstraction and
indirection to audio in Linux. Will the simplicity it seems to aim for
add yet more complexity to the issues surrounding configuration and
troubleshooting of audio in Linux, especially for those who use the
specialized audio applications that many Linux-audio-users use?
How are users responding to the development of PulseAudio and its
inclusion in Linux distribution installations? Remove it afterward and
revert to pure ALSA, disabling Gnome and KDE specific soundservers?
Learning to live with PulseAudio and how to make it work well with
Ardour, Jamin, Rosegarden, Muse, Qtractor, Qjackctl, etc.? :-)
-Steve
(Steve Doonan, Portales, New Mexico US)
Hi Stephen,
as others have said PulseAudio and Jack are somewhat the same
thing and
they complements one to each other.
They are all "sound server" like ESD and aRTS but with some
difference in
the target audience:
* PulseAudio is a desktop sound server with implements stream
mixing,
network transparency, sample caching, and more
* Jack is a pro audio sound server that can connect different
applications together with an emphasis on latency and sample
syncro...
and from the PA or Jack point of view Alsa is just the sound card
driver.
You can read some more about PulseAudio here:
http://pulseaudio.org/
And to be complete not everyone likes PulseAudio.
http://jeffreystedfast.blogspot.com/2008/06/pulseaudio-solution-
in-search-of.html
The response from Lennart Poettering main PulseAudio developer
(in this post he
explains better than me the scope of PA):
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/jeffrey-stedfast.html
Kind regards,
Andrea