On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Jan Steffens <jan.steffens at gmail.com>wrote: > 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). > How are other people setting up Linux for audio and video playback? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20111008/27642cac/attachment.htm>
