Colin, i will talk about the reasons that led to the developments of the audio manager during the LPC audio track. cheers Pierre On 9/19/09, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > While looking into some pulseaudio but reports on this list, I learned about > Mobin's AudioManager which appears to be a fork of pulseaudio (i.e. the git > repository is not a clone of upstream PA, so it seems forky to me): > http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/audiomanager/ > > Information about audio manager is here: > http://moblin.org/community/blogs/zbt/2009/audio-manager-overview > http://moblin.org/community/blogs/zbt/2009/audio-manager-streams > http://moblin.org/community/blogs/zbt/2009/audio-manager-internal-stream-list > http://moblin.org/community/blogs/zbt/2009/audio-manager-volume-ramping > > This seems to be a big DBUS API built on top of PulseAudio to control > streams that cannot pass through PA (e.g. encoded MP3 streams etc.). > > I'm not really sure I fully understand what it does but it looks like it > can implement policy based routing? Is this the case? > > If so it may have some overlap with my module-device-manager that I'm > working on in my tree to provide better support for KDE. It may also have > some overlap with Tanu's DBUS API (not really sure). > > Can some of the Mobin guys maybe talk about some of their extensions and > which ones may be suitable for upstreaming to pulseaudio? Can they also > comment as to if they are intending to push these upstream or if this is > just going to remain a fork? > > Cheers > > 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 >
