On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 05:30 +1000, Mark Constable wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2005 04:46, Lee Revell wrote: > > > My general question, to those who know far more than me, is > > > just what would be the ideal sound subsystem for KDE in 2006 > > > seeing there is a clean slate and an opportunity to get it > > > right from the get go ? > > > > Portaudio. > > Would you care to elaborate on why Portaudio would be a good > system for both professional audio and casual desktop users ? > > What does it offer that ALSA and jack do not, or in conjunction > with ? > It's a portable layer that provides a callback based API on top of ALSA, JACK, OSS, Windows (ASIO and MME I think are supported), etc. If KDE/Qt4 want to be cross platform (and I think they do) it's the only reasonable choice IMHO. http://www.portaudio.com/ Lee > --markc >
