Colin Guthrie wrote: > Vasili Sviridov wrote: > >> The site contains links to the latest version. It's a tarball, so >> provided you satisfy all dependencies, ./configure && make && make >> install should get you going :) >> >> About advantages - that topic was extensively covered, there's a nice >> video of (i believe) Lennart himself explaining the reasons and ideas >> behind PA, just look around, maybe through Wikipedia entry on PA. That >> also includes topics of proxying, merging soundcards together into >> virtual multi-channel soundcards, and much more... >> >> In general PA is the "right thing", that just needs bit more polishing >> and distro vendors involvement :) >> > > Another headline advantage Alex didn't cover is: > > 4) multiple sound cards. If you have e.g. a built in sound card or PCI > sound card and plug in a USB sound system (headset or speaker etc.) then > with pulse you can move currently playing/active streams to the new > device on the fly. Very handy. > > (obviously there are many other advantages such as much better quality > resampling etc. but this thread should not be an extensive list of "good > things" ;)) > > A really good presentation that describes everything pulse is good at/is > for is: > http://foss.in/2007/register/slides/The_PulseAudio_Sound_Server_353.pdf > > (I find it best to "watch" this presentation in "Presentation Mode" of > kpdf but YMMV). > > I'd really recommend you spend the time to look at that Karl if you are > genuinely interested. > > Col > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > > > Right now Col I am much interested in getting pulseaudio running properly on my Fedora 8 operating system. Then I will be more interested in what it does :-) Karl -- Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Linux User #450462 http://counter.li.org. PGP 4208 4D6E 595F 22B9 FF1C ECB6 4A3C 2C54 FE23 53A7
