On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 02:11:06PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Do we have any comments on the sound server topic from a broader > perspective than only GNOME? Is there any perspective on using arts > A competing proposal I've heard is to just use ALSA directly. For network stuff having had a further thing I'd implement esd "second edition" by taking ESD and replacing all its audio side code with SDL_mixer, which was written by someone who has a grasp of audio processing, is portable and can mix multiple channels with fades, some effect and positioning control. > 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. Helix needs 5.1 handling too - thats a lot more fun
