Re: Can Arts work on Gnome?

[Michael Messmore <mmessmore gmail com>]

I'm not a multimedia-fu master like a lot of folks on this list are,
but I think I can address some of your questions.

Does Gnome support arts?  Not really.  You won't be able to get all
gnome apps to use arts for the bleeps and bloops, but most people
don't enable this anyway (partly because esd is a piece of junk).  I
also thing more and more of these will move to use GStreamer or
support straight up ALSA output.

GStreamer supports arts, so you could use it for output from Totem,
Rhythmbox, etc. which are Gnome applications.

While arts is better than esd (I think most people would agree) it has
its own issues, one big one being that it is no longer maintained. 
For example you seem to be running into issues with it now.  From what
I hear the KDE crowd are looking for a replacement.

Polypaudio is a likely candidate for Esound replacement in Gnome and
is picking up steam and support pretty quickly from what I can see.

Jack is widely used in "professional" audio apps (software synths and
such), but I find it to be a huge pain to work with. For the most part
it is only for sound-tinkerers and not for use in mainstream
applications.

But to be honest, you probably don't need to be using a sound-server
at all if you're using ALSA and not using X remotely.  With OSS it was
necessary because only 1 audio stream can be sent to the device at a
time, but with ALSA this is not the case.  I run just fine using ALSA
for everything that supports it, and using ALSA's OSS emulation for
older apps that don't.

Most of the "better" sound servers (arts, jack, etc.) provide sound
fameworks (for effects, etc.), but in my experience GStreamer does a
much better job of this and, I believe, is a much better place for
this to happen.

Please correct me if I've passed on incorrect information here.

Hope this helps.

--mike

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:20:20 +0100, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
<uraeus linuxrising org> wrote:
> Hi,
> If artsd is running using the artsd plugin should automatically output
> sound to it, yes. The ALSA message you paste gives me the impression
> that artsd has some problems with your ALSA setup for some reason.
> 
> GStreamer is the multimedia framework that a lot of GNOME apps use,
> kinda like DirectShow on windows.
> 
> Christian
> 
> On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 12:00 -0700, Rocky Zhang wrote:
> > Thanks, Chris.
> >
> > I config it as you said, but when I clicked "test" button, error message
> > popup:
> >
> > " Failed to construct test pipeline for 'Artsd- ART Sound Daemon'"
> >
> > It seems it can't find Arts daemon. Need I launch it manually (just use
> > arts command-line)?  When I try to launch arts daemon, another error
> > message:
> >
> > "ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:549:(snd_pcm_hw_start) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_START failed:
> > Broken pipe"
> >
> > So I still can't use Arts there. Maybe there is no way to Launch Artsd
> > in Gnome?
> >
> > GStreamer is a application, or all Gnome application use it to play
> > Sound?
> >
> > Rocky
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 09:39, Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
> > > GStreamer have an artsd driver which would let you output to artsd
> > > soundserver. I am not sure how well this plugin works atm, but I have
> > > few/no bugreports on it. But if you go into preferences -> More
> > > preferences and choose Multimedia systems selector you might find artsd
> > > as one of the sound output options there if you have the artsd plugin
> > > installed.
> > >
> > > Christian
> > >
> > > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 09:25 -0700, Rocky Zhang wrote:
> > > > Thanks, Chris. But I prefer to use Arts driver because it's default
> > > > installed in all Fedora Core 2/3 system, I needn't install any more
> > > > RPMs; And it seems more standard.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > Rocky
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 06:15, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > > > Rocky Zhang schrieb:
> > > > >
> > > > > >I'm now using Fedora Core 3 with Gnome. I know Gnome default use ESD
> > > > > >sound driver, but some audio/video application seems not work well with
> > > > > >ESound driver, such as Xmms and Mplayer ( I only can make it work by
> > > > > >ALSA sound driver). I tested Xmms and Mplayer in KDE of FC3, it seems
> > > > > >work fine.  Is there any way to let Gnome use Arts sound driver instead
> > > > > >of ESD?
> > > > > >
> > > > > Polypaudio [1] with it's ESD driver is a drop-in ESD replacement.
> > > > > It works like a charm on my machine. Lennart really provides a great
> > > > > software package :).
> > > > > I don't know whether it's available as a Fedora package. If not, you
> > > > > should bug RH/Fed people :).
> > > > >
> > > > > regs,
> > > > >  Chris
> > > > >
> > > > > [1] http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/
> > > >
> > > >
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