Re: Polypaudio for Gnome 2.10, the next steps

[Lennart Poettering <mztabzr 0pointer de>]

On Wed, 24.11.04 11:16, Jeff Waugh (jdub perkypants org) wrote:

> > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 18:55 -0500, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > [...] If they're using polypaudio, then the polypaudio daemon will be
> > > holding the sound device, so to start their app they'll have to hunt
> > > down every other possible user and close it.
> > 
> > (And terminate the Polypaudio daemon...then restart it when they close the
> > app...)
> 
> Better: A polypaudio module to manage a JACK connection, instead of using
> the ALSA device directly.

In fact, it is even possible to write a jack plugin for polypaudio
which does a 1:1 mapping of polypaudio playback streams in jack
ports. i.e. you could make any software jack-aware by using it on top
of polypaudio.

Lennart

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