On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 09:55:58AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 3/3/06, Adam Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've never used esd or arts since I switched my desktop to Debian about a > > year ago. I've always used just plain ALSA, and it's always worked great. > > For GNOME, you can use GConf to set the outputsink to use the alsasink, and > > in KDE you can simply select it in kcontrol. I really don't know what > > Firefox uses, or how it decides, but I've never had to change anything on > > it. > > I always use plain Alsa as well, since I use fluxbox instead of KDE or Gnome. > Firefox does not have anything to do with sound directly, the plugins > handle that, and they will usually use whatever has been configured > for the desktop. > > GStreamer is going to replace esd and probably arts as well (I don't > think they have a final decision yet). I don't know how good 0.10 > really is, but 0.8 + amarok didn't work out for me. > > GStreamer is a flexible media framework and can actually output to > alsa and oss (and esd and arts, I think). Here is a good article about > it (pre 0.8): http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=5648&page=1
Will any of these systems pipe the audio chain from the machines where the audio programs are running through the X connection to the machine where the user is sitting? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
