Re: ESD, aRts, ALSA, OSS, and GStreamer

["Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <debarshi ray gmail com>]

Hi,

 

> Sound device sharing, and being a public API for portable audio file handling (together

> with libaudiofile).

 

By portable audio file handling what exactly do you mean? Would I be correct if I said it is to decode the various audio file formats in an operating system independent manner?

 

> A lot of people don't need it since they want to use alsa/dmix instead of esd.

 

Why? How is ALSA superior to ESD, or for that matter aRts? Are ESD and aRts abstraction layers built on top of ALSA?

 

Thanks a lot,

Debarshi