On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 15:48 -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Bill Crawford > <billcrawford1970@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > If you have multi-channel hardware that mixes itself, then using > > PulseAudio sort of defeats the purpose of that hardware ;o) > > Such hardware is as far as I understand it, really no longer sold and > has not been for some time, because it just makes more sense to do in > software. "The thing is, hardware mixing is a thing of the past, modern soundcards don't do it anymore. Precisely for doing things like mixing in software SIMD CPU extensions like SSE have been invented. Modern sound cards these days are kind of "dumbed" down, high-quality DACs. They don't do mixing anymore, many modern chips don't even do volume control anymore." http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/jeffrey-stedfast.html Dan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
