On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you check, Lennart has never really had the goal of providing a new > native API. He doesn't advocate using the current API and he doesn't have > "the new one" ready or even described. Pulse to date has not been about > replacing the API(s) used for audio. Still, I've used the current PulseAudio callback-driven API, and it isn't the most felicitous API but it certainly works. I've been thinking of adding a driver for it to Rosegarden, just to wind people u-- sorry, I mean to get basic playback working on systems without JACK. Perhaps fortunately, as always I haven't managed to find the time. I've just spent a few minutes configuring PulseAudio on an Arch Linux system that didn't originally use it, and I have to say that if your workflow includes blips, bloops, media players, and YouTube as well as "serious" audio applications, it really does help to have Pulse working right. It's the badly configured or incompletely installed Pulse that you really have to beware of, and if that's your problem, it's just good as a principle to learn how it works and how to fix it rather than to assume that its developers have simply been wasting far more of their time than you ever will on it. A lot of readers here would find it enlightening to find out what it really consists of and how you make it work properly: I certainly have; it's a fascinating system. And it's not hard to get every type of "desktop" audio playing through Pulse, and then have the whole thing step neatly aside when you want to do real work with JACK. Of course I accept that for many readers here "desktop" audio is of less than no interest, but for some it may be. The real problem PulseAudio has is that you will curse Lennart for the entire time it isn't working properly, and then totally forget about it when it is. Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
