On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:11 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Hi, > > Do we have any comments on the sound server topic from a broader > perspective than only GNOME? > > A competing proposal I've heard is to just use ALSA directly. > > I believe this is orthogonal to something like Helix/GStreamer which > would both output to the sound server, but the maintainers of those > media frameworks probably care about the discussion. > > A nice Fedora goal at some point would be to get all packages using the > same sound setup. > > Havoc I was going to reply to this thread. It seems Jeff really likes Polyaudio so I am going to go ahead and make some packages. It looks like I might have to split out a libesound package for now. The biggest problem from what Jeff said would be converting all our packages to use Polyaudio's API. > email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Proposal: replacing > esound with polypaudio in 2.10" > On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 14:11 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I would like to propose Polypaudio as a replacement for ESOUND in > > Gnome 2.10. Polypaudio is a sound server I have been developing for > > the last months. It aims to be a drop-in replacement for esound fixing > > all those problems esound has. For more information on polypaudio, > > see: > > > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/ > > > > The two most important requirements for an ESOUND replacement are met > > with polypaudio: (at least I think that these are the most important > > issues) > > > > - Polypaudio provides an ESOUND compatibility module. When this is > > enabled polypaudio emulates an esound server, including autospawning > > and thinks like that. The protocol emulation polypaudio implements > > is not complete: some of the more esoteric commands are implemented > > as NOOPs. However, all commands currently used by Gnome 2.8 > > are available. Keep in mind that polypaudio emulates the protocol, not > > the library API: i.e. there's no need to patch, recompile or relink > > any ESOUND based applications for usage with polypaudio. > > > > - There's now a polypaudio sink for gstreamer. It's curentely not as > > featureful as the oss sink, but it is good enough for rhythmbox. > > > > What other requirements have to be met for inclusion of polypaudio in > > Gnome? I am strongly interested in getting polypaudio in shape for > > Gnome 2.10 in time: so please, don't hesitate to criticize polypaudio > > and especially its client API: > > > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/doxygen/ > > > > Portability: I develop Polypaudio mostly on Linux. There's some > > compatibility with OSX, but it is not merged yet. No, it hasn't been > > ported to Solaris or xBSD yet. However the package makes use of > > autoconf, so I expect the port is easy to do. Polypaudio has been > > packaged for Ubuntu by Jeff Waugh, a package for Debian is on its way, > > as it seems. > > > > Lennart > -- > fedora-devel-list mailing list > fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list -- John (J5) Palmieri Associate Software Engineer Desktop Group Red Hat, Inc. Blog: http://martianrock.com
