On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 10:28 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 05:26 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > > AFAIK ALSA is Linux specific whereas gnome and kde are cross-platform. So > > the important thing isn't to have alsa do network audio. It's to have a > > cross platform API that addresses the present shortcomings (Alan posts > > about those nearly every time this comes up.) Then it can be implemented on > > Linux and other platforms in whatever form makes sense. > > Well, the solution that GNOME seems to have converged on is to use > Gstreamer and use whatever default output method Gstreamer is set up > for. On many desktop systems, using the Gstreamer alsasink output plugin > would be the best; in other cases you can either use e.g. esd or some > other sound server which can provide network transparency. At least some > KDE programs use Gstreamer as well, and apparently there is talk of > using Gstreamer pretty much as the default audio solution for KDE 4. So > it seems that Gstreamer can fulfill the role of being _the_ audio API > that desktop apps use. > > /Per > > -- > Per Bjornsson <perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University > FYI, it looks like the issue with artsd going mental has departed. Thanks to whomever looked into it and repaired the problem! Sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
