Re: GNOME 2 Sound Architecture and APIs?



Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com> writes:

> > I would appreciate getting peoples views on where GNOME 2.x should be
> > regarding its sound architecture. I am not trying to suggest that we
> > should change the current GNOME 1.x sound, but more want to know what we
> > collectively think is the right strategy/standard base that GNOME
> > depends upon. I would like to be able to collectively develop a plan for
> > enhancements etc which we agree we need to deliver as a part of GNOME 2.
> 
> I spoke briefly with Alan about this at GUADEC.  My personal feeling
> was that many sound cards these day can do mixing in hardware and
> allow multiple applications to open the dsp device (Alan then pointed
> out that I am just lucky).
> 
> One thing that is still an issue is that we need an arbitrartion
> mechanism for the audio device, and a program like esound/arts could
> serve this purpose.

If I understood this correctly, CSL is such kind of a library which can
talk to different sound servers.

-- 
Martin Baulig
martin gnome org (private)
baulig suse de (work)

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