Hello, On 13/04/2019 20:55, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Once pulseaudio got introduced the whole sound system due to the strange > language used with pulseaudio got lots more complex. Yes the language used by PulseAudio is not obvious (at least for someone whose native language is French). As an example I had hard time understanding what a "sink" means. But to be honest the vocabulary used by ALSA was not easy to grasp for me either. And unfortunately differs. As an aside, for people seriously wanting to know PulseAudio I highly recommend reading "PulseAudio under the hood" from Victor Gaydov: https://gavv.github.io/articles/pulseaudio-under-the-hood/ It covers pretty much every topic you can think of, answers a lot of questions you may have and issues you could come across. Here is the table of contents: Preface About PulseAudio High-level components Key abstractions D-Bus API C API Protocols and networking Device drivers Sound processing Sample cache Stream management Time management Power saving Automatic setup and routing Desktop integrations Compatibility layers Server internals Module list GUI tools Command line tools Configuration Portability Example setups Example clients and modules Critique Dosed anyone knows a similar document about ALSA? Best regards Didier _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
