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

["Ronald S. Bultje" <rbultje ronald bitfreak net>]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 12:18 +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote:
> As I don't think "manually start esd or
> polypaudio on the target machine and use gstreamer's esd plugin" is the
> right answer regarding GNOME's philosophy, would it be possible to:
[..]
> - have libgnome's gstreamer output plugin use alsa/oss/whatever when
> DISPLAY=:0 and use the remote sound server (designated by DISPLAY)
> otherwise.

Of course, all of this would be autodetected. There's already code in
place in GStreamer for this, although it may not (yet) work for the
remote case.

Ronald