Petr Pisar (ppisar@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I suggest that these be just built without NAS support. NAS is basically an > > older competitor to PulseAudio with fewer features (it focuses on network > > transparency, which is just one of the things PulseAudio does), it is not > > compatible with PulseAudio, few to no people use it. > > > I agree NAS is very old audio system, but it has history. It works (or > should work) across operating systems (do not think only about Linux). > In addition it supports bidirectional sound transmission (from > microphone). > > PulseAudio is interresting project, but it's absolutely unusable on old > slow hardware. Last time I checked it out on Pentium TSC (no MMX) > running at 200 MHz, it consumed 20 % of CPU just in idle mode. While > `playing', it congested CPU, printed some warnings about stream buffer > overflow and terminated gracefully complaining about no CPU cycles. NAS > or Esound work on the machine fluently. Given that that's not the hardware target we're looking at in Fedora, perhaps some effort could be spent in determining where the performance issues lie in PA in an effort to fix the experience for everyone, rather than maintaining parallel implementations that provide little benefit to the userbase as a whole? Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
