On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 16:52 +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 09/06/2014 16:09, Ralf Mardorf a écrit : > > For averaged desktop audio users pulseaudio does provide a more or IMO > > rather less way to handle audio streams. > > What do you mean here ? I do notr use pulseaudio, what would it give me > to have it ? I also have a laptop under fedora with pulseaudio, and I do > not not see what pulseaudio brings comparing to a debian without it.
I never used pulseaudio. In the past it didn't work with my prosumer and professional audio cards. It might work nowadays, but I wouldn't gain anything when using it. AFAIK for averaged desktop audio users pulseaudio is able to manage different audio streams, similar to a mixer. Once Fon's, a coder, on Linux audio user mailing list or Linux audio devel mailing list pointed out, that pulseaudio's mixing code is insane. "Insane" is my wording, maybe not his wording. It seems to be that PA e.g. reduce the level of the audio stream at one point of the audio chain and at the same time it does increase the audio level on another part of the same audio stream chain, this is a task that can't work, it's dilettante, no experienced audio engineer would tolerate such an idiotic way to handle an audio stream. The PA developers, especially one guy, claimed that PA can't work perfectly, because the ALSA developers miss to provide some information the PA code needs ... but IMO I shouldn't continue. It's said that PA is a blessing for averaged desktop audio usage. That's how it should be. I use the PC speaker for notifications/warnings/what ever and I use ALSA to play sound from e.g. a YouTube video and for pro-audio I use jackd, jackd doesn't always satisfy my needs, but IMO it still is the best sound server available for Linux. JMMV ;)! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1402326527.813.123.camel@archlinux
