Re: Replacing Esound with Polypaudio?

[Xavier Bestel <xavier bestel free fr>]

Le jeu 09/09/2004 à 15:56, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
> On Thu, 09.09.04 15:51, Xavier Bestel (xavier bestel free fr) wrote:
> 
> > Le mer 08/09/2004 à 15:17, Lennart Poettering a écrit :
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > I am currently working on the Polypaudio sound server, a drop-in
> > > replacement for esound. Polypaudio is a modern sound server that
> > > features protocol-level compatiblity with esound.
> > 
> > Would using jackd as a mixing backend be a simple matter of writing an
> > output plugin ?
> 
> Yes. I already thought about that. It is possible to write a plugin
> for polypaudio that creates a sink where all connected inputs are
> streamed directly to an underlying jack server, which does all the
> mixing. Polypaudio wouldn't do any mixing or resampling in this case. 
> 
> That has sex appeal, hasn't it?

Well, if that doesn't introduces latencies, that makes polyaudio quite
perfect :)

	Xav