On 3/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
I don't think gstreamer does (maybe with a plugin). ESD (Enlightened Sound Demon) and NAS (Network Audio System) do network audio. There is a new project called MAS (Multimedia Application Server) that is connected to x.org, but I don't know how mature it is right now. To my surprise arts apparently can do network audio but I have never hear of anyone using it.
