On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:19:26PM +0100, Frank Barknecht wrote: > Hallo, > Steve Harris hat gesagt: // Steve Harris wrote: > > > Agreed, I think this is the best thing - existing "bings and beeps" type > > apps are unlikly to switch to a JACK style API for the audio i/o, > > Well, but what's the point of having a soundserver at all when ALSA > can do the mixing of the bings and beeps with its dmix plugin itself? > Even format and samplerate conversion could be done with ALSA. The > advantage is, that a soundserver would not block the soundcard all the > time and thus has to be disabled by users. Well, KDE is suppoed to cover more than just linux, so they need a crossplatform sound API (though it could use ALSA underneath where available). Not even all linux distributions have alsa support yet. - Steve
