Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:22:57AM +0000, Daniel James wrote: > >>Anyone want to defend the use of artsd? > > > I'll take a swing. It's a working way to get multiple stream output > for applications. Yes, we would scoff at its performance but that's not that's one fat lie (yes it does but no it doesn't solve the problem it's supposed to solve). if you need it in the first place (card does not support multi channels) you cannot use it because not all aps use it and you're in the same audo blocking hell as without it. example: set mozilla to use arts, set xmms to use arts etc... and then go and surf the web, flash, realplayer etc. all do not use arts and thus your mozilla blocks (looks frozen) on number of pages... (I suspect it's mostly flash, used in banners, not playing any sound but still trying to open audio) now what did arts help exactly? that's why the problem of multiple applications trying to use soundcard has to be solved by something that pretty much everybody uses erik
