Re: Pulseaudio

["Martin Meyer" <elreydetodo gmail com>]

I agree that PulseAudio is quite nice, I use it on my amd64 system. It
has some GTK gui config tools which are nice, but I feel like they
would need to be a little simpler if they were going to be included in
Gnome. It's pretty powerful and flexible from what I've seen. That
part aside...

I would love to be able to ditch esound, but I don't know if
PulseAudio is something I would want to see tied into the desktop.
It's a pretty heavy-weight audio server, full of features and
everything, but it's not the simplest thing to configure and some
people just won't want it. It also eliminates a certain about of
choice that I feel should be left to the distro and/or user. Has
anyone asked the Pulse devs if they even want it to be considered for
inclusion?

Gstreamer seems like the right thing to do here, and I remember this
conversation coming up last year. I don't recall what the end decision
was, if any. I'm wondering this: what if someone were to re-implement
the esound API to simply pipe the sound into gstreamer? Is that
possible?

Martin

On 10/8/07, Matteo Settenvini <matteo-ml member fsf org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm new to this list, so sorry if I ask something already discussed.
>
> It has been a while since esound has received some attention - releases
> are almost stalled. Looking at the GNOME wiki, it seems that Pulseaudio
> is the stronger candidate between alternatives, and that it allows for
> quite a lot of nifty things.
>
> I'm running pulseaudio since four or five months now on two of my
> desktop systems, both x86 and PPC, and I must say that I'm really
> satisfied by it.
> It's quite stable and has very few compelling bugs for the normal user
> (e.g. when using it as an esound replacement on a machine with more than
> a logged in user it doesn't share the esd socket, or similar).
>
> It also seems to be actively developed, and is shipped by default with
> Fedora 8.
>
> Can it be eligible for inclusion in GNOME 2.22?
>
> Thanks for any answer,
> --
> Matteo Settenvini
> FSF Associated Member
> Email : matteo member fsf org
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