On Monday 09 March 2009, Tom Horsley wrote: >On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 06:34:32 -0700 > >Suvayu Ali wrote: >> Not many have multiple cards, but most do have these multi-stream >> capable audio hardware. They come in pretty handy if you actually use >> your desktop as your primary home multimedia device. > >Yep. The main reason I always remove pulseaudio is the apparent total >inability to send already encoded sound (like a DVD soundtrack) to the >SP/DIF optical output on my motherboard's sound interface. I spent >weeks decrypting the ALSA gibberish required to get this working, >then pulseaudio wiped out all the work. If it can do it, then it >needs a better mixer interface to show how to do it, if it can't do >it, it needs to be able to before it can replace ALSA for me. > >In fact, I suspect what linux needs far more than pulseaudio is a layer >on top of ALSA that sorts all the hardware specific gibberish ALSA >names like "IEC958 Playback AC97-SPSA" into something more meaningful >and provides some explanation for why I have 27 "simple" ALSA sound controls >when my motherboard has only 7 sound related connectors :-). +1000! -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
