14 Apr
2008
14 Apr
'08
12:08 p.m.
Am Montag, 14. April 2008 schrieb Paul Davis:
That last argument probably applies to _every_ soundsystem out there on linux.
Because everytime one of them authors claims to revolutionize the sound on
linux the lad/lau guys ask "can you make use of jack?", they sit down and
produce a sink to use jack for output. But what is the purpose to stack PA on
top of esd (or gstreamer) on top of Jack on top of alsa???
Arnold
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On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 10:04 +0200, Arnold Krille
wrote:
Does PA cover all the points today's desktop apps need? Does it have video?
And yes, video has proven to be one of the important requisites for
desktop-app-devs during the Phonon-design-process...
So PulseAudio is by design not _the_ solution
for
sound on the desktop. It is just another middle-layer for sound.
reasonable people
might choose to disagree about this. * intra-application management of media streams
* delivery/receipt of media streams to endpoints outside
of an application
PulseAudio is aimed at the second task; gstreamer is aimed at the first.
my impression is that Phonon is attempting to cover both. good? bad?
*you* decide :)
Hmm, using one lib/api against using two or more... I know, I go for using
_one_ api for it all. And if it is already inside the toolkit I use, the
decision gets even more easy.
And PulseAudio
claims to unify both desktop-needs and pro-audio-needs.
Another place it will fail big time. Because it will never be good enough
to have ardour use PulseAudio. (Hint: Jack was designed for ardour...)
Lennart
(PA's author) fully understands how and why JACK is different
from PulseAudio, and has long term to plans to try to provide
jack-server functionality within pulse. PA also has a JACK backend
already, so that you can use "desktop" apps while JACK is running and
still hear them.