On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 11:02 PM, CC <ccomren at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I'm new to PulseAudio and couldn't find the following online: > Can PulseAudio take advantage of advanced sound cards, e.g., mixing and > resampling? > Does it allow for bit-for-bit playback? > I'm building an media pc, but might have wrong ideas about the requirements > -- I do lite the highest possible audio quality. I assume resampling will > slightly reduce audio quality (which I guess is why Windows allows > bit-for-bit playback) and also burns a few CPU cycles. > CC No and no. PulseAudio does not support hardware mixing and will resample all incoming streams to the default sample rate and format of the sink (by default 44.1kHz 16bit).
