Re: Pulseaudio

From: Sam Morris <sam robots org uk>
To: desktop-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Pulseaudio
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:45:23 +0000 (UTC)

On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:52:14 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:

> I don't care only about proprietary applications.  You think for example
> that Second Life Linux client (which is open source) will use Pulse
> Audio API directly?  It will take years before that happens.  I remember
> perfectly well how much time it took for applications to switch from OSS
> to ALSA, after Linux declared ALSA the official "blessed" Linux sound
> API.

It still hasn't happened. Proprietary games all still use OSS... even 
Teamspeak, which you would think would be designed to function at the 
same time as other sound-using programs, uses OSS... meaning that it's 
impossible to actually use it while playing a game.

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Follow-Ups:
- Re: Pulseaudio
  - From: Calum Benson
- Re: Pulseaudio
  - From: Daniel Elstner

References:
- Pulseaudio
  - From: Matteo Settenvini
- Re: Pulseaudio
  - From: Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
- Re: Pulseaudio
  - From: Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro

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