Re: [LAU] LAC2010, some thoughts

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Am 07.05.2010 20:40, schrieb rosea.grammostola:
> 2) As Lennart pointed out, we, as a community but maybe especially the
> LAD people, should join also other events like the Linux Plumbers (1)
> Conference, so kernel, distro, driver and desktop people find out which
> problems the pro audio people are facing and what is important for them.
> This could improve the out-of-the-box-experience for pro audio people.

I do so for some years now. speaking to the mainline-Linux-people in
Germany at LinuxTag, Chemnitzer Linuxtage, Brandenburger Linux Info Tag
and so on.
I find a mild interest but not so much in-deep understanding and many
misconceptions.
Such as:

The main problem in Linux Audio is, that you cannot hear your MP3-player
anymore if you try to play a game.

Audio software is not the same as demanding in terms of performance as
data-bases are.

Most audio software is buggy for it can freeze the system. No good
software will ever freeze or crash.

Jack is yet another sound-server like artsd or esd, it is only more
complicated to set up and operate for the user. It should work
transparently.

....

I gave a talk on the Linux audio system at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage this
year in wich I proposed:

Make your software run with jack if you plan to make a productive audio
tool. Make it run with ALSA also and if its just for the desktop, make
it run with Pulse Audio. If this seems too hard a task, try phonon or
xine but ignore all others. We need to get rid of all the obsolete
legacy stuff out there.

In the discussion after the talk came questions like this one:

"OSS is free now and it might be cool - why not code audio-stuff for OSS4?"

The audience ratings for the talk where mostly positive, the only
criticism was: "I found it too controversal/apodictic".

> \r
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> 1) http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2010/
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