On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:49:07PM +0200, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 19 juillet 2013 11:56 CEST, Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de> : > > > So PA is not removing complexity, but adding to it. Surely a bit of > > complexity is needed to solve sophisticated tasks, but it could indeed > > do better. For instance pacmd list-* could get some verbosity switches > > and hide some details in the default view. Scanning a pacmd list-sinks > > output for the relevant info just takes too long (in addition to needing > > to scroll the terminal). > > Did you see the examples of asoundrc I posted? PulseAudio removes all > this non-sense by providing mixing in almost all situations (while Alsa > is doing it out of the box only for analog output), correct setup of > output (no need to remap channels), provide a sane naming of output (no > meaningless numbered outputs),
I'm not aware of PulseAudio being capable of doing this, at least not in the version in wheezy. That "non-sense" of asoundrc you're speaking of is required to have an usable multi-channel setup for N > 2. PA will set all weights to 1, which in a real-world room produces a worse result than a two-speaker setup. Unless your room is specifically built for a media center, you can't reasonably place speakers in arbitrary places. Not sure about current state, but at the very least a brief search doesn't reveal any such functionality accessible to the user. Which might mean either that it doesn't exist or that the docs are worse than terrible. A channel weight matrix is basic functionality for multi-channel. ALSA provides it from the start -- it's right in the rc you need to copy to get any fancier setup. And for non-fancier setups, ie, regular stereo, ALSA just works, and PulseAudio, relying on ALSA, is nothing but an additional moving part that can break. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130719211222.ga4...@angband.pl
