On Tue, 09.02.10 18:41, Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk at iki.fi) wrote: > ti, 2010-02-09 kello 11:17 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti: > > The corking stuff in PA is very cool. I don't think anyone objects to > > it. But couldn't we quell all the "PA stinks!" posts by just allowing > > some processes/groups/users to have constant access to audio? > > That's easier said than done. Only one process can have direct access to > the sound card at a time. Each user has his own pulseaudio instance > running. How do you implement constant access in such scenario? I fear > it would require a major redesign effort in pulseaudio. I haven't seen > any concrete design proposals enabling simultaneous access for multiple > users while at the same time retaining all the desirable properties that > the current system has. Also, if this is all just about ways so that different users can pass audio to each other, there are simpler ways to achieve that. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4
