Re: Proposed Modules, My Take

[gabor <gabor z10n net>]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:40:39AM +0100, Amaury Jacquot wrote:
> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> >So I have an alternate proposal for 2.10: just take out esound.
> 
> good call
> 
> my take here is that there's no real point in using a sound-server 
> anymore, unless you use some hackish setup with remote workstation & sound.
> may I remind people that esound was included so that multiple 
> application could use the sound device at the same time, function which 
> is now done directly by Alsa, with it's software mixing functionnalities.
> As such, we don't need those network enabled things anymore.
> 

please understand that dmix does not work. period.
maybe it's bad design, or simply buggy code, but it does not work.
and it's like that for a looong time..

maybe it's good enough to play 2 mp3 files at the same time, but the
multimedia needs does not end there.

if you can watch 2 video files at the same time (for example with
totem), with PERFECT audio/video sync, then it works.

so currently the ONLY way to have software mixing is to use a sound
server.

i'm not saying that polypaudio should be included in gnome.

i'm just tired of this 'software mixing is not a problem. dmix works'
argument. which is not true.

gabor