[orca-list] audio and pulseaudio: was: Re: Punctuation, capital letters, exchange of characters and strings, generally error in the design of Orca

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:24 +1000, Jason White wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 08:52:35PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
>  
> > I agree that pulseaudio doesn't seem to be the way forward. I have heard
> > so much of it here on this list that I thought may be I should try it
> > and solve the problems I have for those few apps which don't work with
> > alsa or the alsa-oss compatibility system. All my effort lead to me
> > concluding that all pulseaudio does is insert another layer of
> > complexity which I need to work out how to set up correctly so that all
> > apps can produce sound.
>
> There is a list of features here:
> http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/AboutPulseAudio#Features
To me none of those features really seems to offer much more than can be
achieved with stuff which already existed, but may be there is something
technical about it which is an advantage and I may understand given an
example.

> Note that the maintainers of several Linux distributions, Ubuntu and Fedora to
> begin with, disagree with the assertion that PulseAudio is not the way
> forward. In fact, they think it is so much the way forward that it will be
> used by default to control audio output.
I am not saying they are wrong, but on all I have managed to find out
about it, it really doesn't seem to give anything extra, and as I said,
I found it just an extra layer of complexity to get working, and for no
advantages I wouldn't say the complexity is worth having. If someone can
explain what the real advantages are, then may be I might feel the
complexity is worth the gains.

Michael Whapples
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