On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:21 PM, James Warden <warjamy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Works really good for what I am using it for. No pulseaudio, no gstreamer, pure ALSA only. many people seem confused by what gstreamer is. its not anything like JACK or PulseAudio or ALSA. if you use Rythmbox, for example, it will be using gstreamer no matter how the audio gets out of your machine. gstreamer is an intra-application framework for handling streaming data. it has a variety of "plugins" that can be connected together to form a pipeline *WITHIN* an application. one of those plugins is generally going to be an output plugin, and it might be the ALSA output plugin, the Pulse output plugin, the JACK output plugin etc. etc. etc. put differently, you can dump JACK, Pulseaudio, ALSA from your system and it won't remove the use of gstreamer by applications, just like it won't remove the use of libsndfile. --p _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
