On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Brent Busby<brent@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now that I've gotten a pretty clear picture of the concensus about > PulseAudio, I wondered about some of the other (new and old) sound > facilities in Linux, and specifically wondered if being on a system like > Gentoo where one can turn off build-time support for these things is a > good idea. So... > > > PortAudio: PortAudio is just a portable API. there is no server, no backend anything. It doesn't provide shared hardware access. It is unrelated to everything else in your list. > Ideally, all sound apps, regardless of what target > they're expecting, ought to be able to transparently find the Alsa > mixer, and multiplex with other apps to share access with it > simultaneously, also without special setup. There is no "ALSA mixer" for multiplexing apps unless you mean dmix and or a "share" plugin. Both of these "work" for some definition of the term, but both have also been tested and found wanting as a general solution to the problem of shared h/w access. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
