> With this patch applied, you app should work nicely with the following > pipeline: > > App -> PortAudio -> Alsa -> Pulse -> Sound H/W -> Ears -> Brain > Well, then I could just go with PortAudio and rely on Ubuntu to patch their thing someday :) Lennart wrote a nice article about Audio APIs recently: > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html > > May make for some nice reading :) > Thanks, I've been looking for something like that... -- Regards Jonas Finnemann Jensen. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 13:34, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Jonas Finnemann Jensen at 27/01/09 11:18 did gyre and > gimble: > > Hi, > > > > I don't know if this is the right list to post this question, if not I'm > > very sorry and feel free to ignore me :) > > (I think maybe this should have gone to PortAudio list, but it's down > > for the moment). > > > > I'm doing a free platform independent application in C# using mono... > > Now I wish to do audio playback, so far I've found some C# bindings for > > PortAudio, and as far as I can see it should be easy to include and > > distribute PortAudio in a windows release... > > > > However, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, and when playing music with PortAudio > > other applications can't play anything... I think this is because > > PortAudio uses ALSA directly... > > This shouldn't be a problem as alsa can be directed to pulseaudio. > > I'm going to hazard a guess and say that Ubuntu probably hasn't included > Kevin Kofler's patches in their portaudio package that makes it play > nice with the alsa->pulse plugin? You should look in the Fedora or > Mandriva portaudio packages for this patch. I'm not sure if it's gone > upstream. > > > http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/portaudio/current/SOURCES/portaudio-19-alsa_pulse.patch?revision=313993&view=markup > > With this patch applied, you app should work nicely with the following > pipeline: > > App -> PortAudio -> Alsa -> Pulse -> Sound H/W -> Ears -> Brain > > > I'd admit that I don't know much about audio playback and sound > > architecture... But should I be using PulseAudio instead of PortAudio, > > or should I use some specific backend in PortAudio, or a specific > > setting for ALSA when using it from PortAudio? > > > > What is the most portable and easy way to audio playback, from the > > applications developers perspective? > > And how do I avoid blocking other applications from playing sounds? > > Lennart wrote a nice article about Audio APIs recently: > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html > > May make for some nice reading :) > > Col > > -- > > Colin Guthrie > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > Day Job: > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > Open Source: > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at mail.0pointer.de > https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20090127/50b854a4/attachment.htm>
