Indeed. Pulseaudio's use of the term "sink" is sadly ironic. To a reasonably educated English speaker it' squite clearly the confusion of someone who's not so well versed in English. The term they wanted is "sync," as in "syncronization.," not "sink" as in the kitchen sink. But, it's now possibly the case that pulseaudio itself is about to be overtaken by a newer and more comprehensive specification, pipewire: https://pipewire.org Bye, bye, pulseaudio. hth Janina Didier Spaier writes: > 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 -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
