Re: ANNOUNCE: Polypaudio 0.5

[Spundun Bhatt <spundun ISI EDU>]

Lennart Poettering wrote:

> Hi!
>
>  
Hi Lennart,
I was wondering if Polypaudio will be ported to OSX or not. I use Gnome 
2.6 on osx with fink... esd works but has some glitches.

Thanx,
Spundun

> I released the Polypaudio Sound Server 0.5 a few minutes ago. Changes
> include:
>
> - extensive API improvements
> - new module module-combine for combining multiple sound cards into one
> - gcc 2.95 compatibility
> - configuration files
> - "lazy" samples
> - support for source and network latency measurements (in addition to sink latency measurements)
> - add module-pipe-source
> - many other fixes and improvements.
>
> This all makes it an even better replacement for ESOUND in Gnome 2.10. ;-)
>
> gstreamer and mplayer drivers work more or less, but aren't released
> yet. Porting polypaudio to FreeBSD and a driver for PortAudio are next
> on my TODO-list.
>
> BTW: This is the first release where polypaudio exceeds esound in all
> respects. You can even replace the esd binary with a polypaudio
> wrapper script and run gnome that way and everything works as
> expected.
>
> Lennart
>
>  


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