On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 13:28 +0200, Adam Tlałka wrote: > >From my point of view ALSA has many advantages if you want to dig in > the card driver buffers/period etc. settings but lacks ease of use and > some of simple in theory functionality is a pain - device enumeration > or switching output mode/device without restarting apps or rewritting > them so they have special function for that purpose. > Does any available sound driver interface allow switching output devices with no help from the app and without having to restart playback? OSS does not, and every Windows app I've used has a configuration option to set the sound device, and you must stop and start playback for it to take effect. > esd, arts, jackd, polypd and other prove that ALSA is not enough > and its functionality is far from perfect. > esd and artsd are no longer needed since ALSA began to enable software mixing by default in release 1.0.9. As for jackd and other apps that provide additional functionality - no one ever claimed ALSA would handle every audio related function imaginable. It's just a low level HAL. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
