Re: [LAU] PulseAudio and Alsa

On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 09:38:58AM -0600, Stephen Doonan wrote:

> I just wonder whether, from a Linux audio/MIDI users point of view,
> PulseAudio is intended to become a replacement for ALSA (and that
> therefore I ought to learn more about PulseAudio) or whether it will
> be regarded as more of a nuisance, another level of complexity, and
> that it might be better to try to be pure ALSA instead, with Gnome
> and KDE sound servers disabled if possible.

Reading the PulseAudio site and following a few links it looks to me
as though PulseAudio is essentially a replacement for jack, ie. it's a
server that links sound applications together. On ALSA-only systems
it uses ALSA to connect to the hardware. However it looks as though
it can also sit on top of JACK:

    http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Modules#JACKConnectivity
    http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-548178.html

I'd like to know what PulseAudio offers that jack doesn't. Is it the
networking?

Regards,

Jeremy Henty
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Received on Sun Aug 31 20:15:02 2008