[LAU] PulseAudio

[Paul Davis]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 11:35 -0700, Ken Restivo wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:14:02PM -0700, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > 
> > On 7 April 2008 at 15:02, Stephen Cameron <smcameron at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Don't know about Mandriva, but I found that on fedora 8 
> > > that pulseaudio doesn't seem to handle multiple
> > > sound cards very well.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Ugh.  From what I could gather, PulseAudio's reason to exist is for 
> > multiple cards, "sinks", "sources", and routing.  If it doesn't do 
> > multiple cards well, then something is amiss.  I guess I'll wait and 
> > see what it looks like.
> > 
> 
> They will take my jackd (or jackmpd) away when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

Actually, Lennart has expressed some hope for PulseAudio to become JACK
(i.e. support the JACK server API/protocol, and the expectations for a
JACK server). Not likely to happen any time soon.

--p