Hello Janina, Well, I thought that "source" and "sink" rather were chosen by analogy with a water distribution system. About pipewire (thanks for the info), a short look at the wiki makes me think that it is trying to find a niche "market" between JACK and PulseAudio. Anyway it will take some time before I can possibly consider shipping it in Slint <smile> Oh, and I have no issue with PulseAudio at all. So, no bye bye PulseAudio here. Granted it can have more latency than JACK, but is not targeted at audiophiles. BTW, the article I linked to clearly explains how to make JACK and PulseAudio coexist. Best, Didier On 13/04/2019 22:37, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
