RH 8 has switched to pulseaudio, SUSE is considering it. I was wondering
what was on the mind of the Debian developers. Are they considering
switching to it at some point in the future?

For you users who have tried pulseaudio, I have two questions: Did you
go back to esd or not? Why?

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On Jan 26, 2008 8:03 PM, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> wrote:
> RH 8 has switched to pulseaudio, SUSE is considering it. I was wondering
> what was on the mind of the Debian developers. Are they considering
> switching to it at some point in the future?
>
> For you users who have tried pulseaudio, I have two questions: Did you
> go back to esd or not? Why?

I love PulseAudio! I used to run KDE, and I quickly decided to disable
and remove arts - it was very unstable and flaky. Then I used Fluxbox
and other WMs. I tried esd, but found it as bad as arts. So for a long
time I used bare ALSA (not even any dmix). At the beginning of this
month, I got around to setting up PA, and it works great!

I have had no problem mixing sounds, and no problems getting things
to play. Mplayer, Xine and SDL all have pulse support, and vlc is
working fine, thanks to alsa emulation. Thanks to a third party library
called et-sdl-sound, even Quake III works fine. All this is on Sid btw.

Anyway, it is so hassle-free and good that it seems like I have been
using it for much longer than 3-4 weeks. I wouldn't go back to bare
alsa, and certainly not arts or esd.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:32:38PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Jan 26, 2008 8:03 PM, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> wrote:
> > RH 8 has switched to pulseaudio, SUSE is considering it. I was wondering
> > what was on the mind of the Debian developers. Are they considering
> > switching to it at some point in the future?
> >
> > For you users who have tried pulseaudio, I have two questions: Did you
> > go back to esd or not? Why?
>
> I love PulseAudio! ...
...

> Anyway, it is so hassle-free and good that it seems like I have been
> using it for much longer than 3-4 weeks. I wouldn't go back to bare
> alsa, and certainly not arts or esd.

have you used it networked yet? I'm thinking of it as a solution for
whole house stereo ;-) with boxes in enough strategic rooms of the
house already, I'm thinking PA would be a good choice to stream audio
to those machines from a central control point.

A

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On Jan 28, 2008 10:20 AM, Andrew Sackville-West
<andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:32:38PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> > On Jan 26, 2008 8:03 PM, Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> wrote:
> > > RH 8 has switched to pulseaudio, SUSE is considering it. I was wondering
> > > what was on the mind of the Debian developers. Are they considering
> > > switching to it at some point in the future?
> > >
> > > For you users who have tried pulseaudio, I have two questions: Did you
> > > go back to esd or not? Why?
> >
> > I love PulseAudio! ...
> ...
>
> > Anyway, it is so hassle-free and good that it seems like I have been
> > using it for much longer than 3-4 weeks. I wouldn't go back to bare
> > alsa, and certainly not arts or esd.
>
> have you used it networked yet? I'm thinking of it as a solution for
> whole house stereo ;-) with boxes in enough strategic rooms of the
> house already, I'm thinking PA would be a good choice to stream audio
> to those machines from a central control point.

I haven't tried networking yet. Right now I only have one comp, although
I suppose I could setup PA on my grandmother's computer (or wait for
Hardy).


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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