Hi, Yes, polypaudio does look like a good replacement for esd in the Gnome 2.10. However, the discussion is still on in the Gnome desktop-devel-list and the release team has until January 10th to announce the final list of modules for 2.10.
In the meantime, I was able to locally resolve the problem of realplay not starting when esd is running. I added a '-as 2' in the spawn_options of /etc/esd/conf. The manpage reads: -as SECS free audio device after SECS of inactivity (-1 to disable) So, the realplay now gets to hold the device after the timeout. Further, the audio device was being held by esd due to gtk events like clicked, toggled, etc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> esdctl allinfo server version = 0 server format = 0x00000021 server rate = 44100 sample 2 name = gtk-events-2/toggled sample 2 format = 0x00001011 sample 2 rate = 44100 sample 2 left = 256 sample 2 right = 256 sample 2 length = 4714 sample 3 name = gtk-events-2/activate sample 3 format = 0x00001011 sample 3 rate = 44100 sample 3 left = 256 sample 3 right = 256 sample 3 length = 13824 sample 4 name = gtk-events-2/clicked sample 4 format = 0x00001011 sample 4 rate = 44100 sample 4 left = 256 sample 4 right = 256 sample 4 length = 5434 sample 5 name = gnome-2/logout sample 5 format = 0x00001021 sample 5 rate = 44100 sample 5 left = 256 sample 5 right = 256 sample 5 length = 705600 sample 6 name = gnome-2/login sample 6 format = 0x00001021 sample 6 rate = 44100 .. Thanks a lot to Greg and everyone for their valuable help. Cheers, Kaushal On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 14:43 -0800, Ryan Gammon wrote: > There's a project called polypaudio which is really cool... It's > backwards compatible with esound, and adds the latency stuff needed for > AV sync. > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/ > > It's potentially going into gnome 2.10 in March '05, the other > contenders being Alsa's DMIX and sticking with esound (from what I've seen). > > > Greg Wright wrote: > > > Yeah, ESD got messed up somewhere along the line, it never was > > very good for Video playback because ESD is not geared towards > > A/V sync (we can't get any feedback on bytes consumed). > > > > My guess is that we need to fix the wallclock timeline stuff. > > A/V will still drift over time, but it should be at least a > > little better then it is now. I guess ESound might have changed > > in the last couple years as well, that may be part of the problem > > as well. > > > > --greg. > > > > > > Ryan Gammon wrote: > > > >> I tried using the esound support on the head. > >> > >> Performance with the esound audio backend is still pretty unusable > >> for video. Not sure why -- I logged some data on bytes written, bytes > >> actually played, and time, and things actually looked ok in terms of > >> an increasing bytes played & the lag to bytes written. > >> > >> A mystery to me... > >> > >> Greg Wright wrote: > >> > >>> I wonder if you just compiled a core off the HEAD if you could > >>> just drop that into the player install and get support for it. > >>> Ryan, do you know of any interface changes that would keep that > >>> from working? > >>> > >>> --greg. > >>> > >>> > >>> Ryan Gammon wrote: > >>> > >>>> Greg Wright wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> The only problem is, I am not sure if the > >>>>> current RealPlayer/HelixPlayer ships with the ESound support. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> It does not. > >>>> > >>> > >> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Audio-dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.helixcommunity.org/mailman/listinfo/audio-dev
