On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:51 PM, <berenger.mo...@neutralite.org> wrote: > Which means ( roughly, I'm not a translator ): > "So, the softwares which are using ALSA will send their output to > PulseAudio, which will then use ALSA to access the real sound card." > Really, it's fun. But honestly, I really try to keep my system as > lightweight as possible, so *not* using daemons to access an API ( yes, one > daemon is not that big. But one plus one plus one plus yet another are. > Other point: the more code you need to run a software, the more likely you > will meet funny bugs, and daemons are pieces of softwares which not trivial > to write and used by several others, so may insert bugs in several other > programs. Making things hard to fix when there is a problem, in short ).
One thing I minorly miss, which I believe is a PulseAudio feature, is the ability to control volume per-application using an external tool. Sometimes I'm playing music (eg in VLC; as I type, I have Disney's "Let it go" as my background music, and before that I was playing the OST from American McGee's Alice - yeah, I like mad girls) and playing a game, and a lot of games don't offer a volume control - just "mute sound" or "don't mute sound". On one of my previous computers, which was running Ubuntu 10.10 and had PA, I could go into a mixer somewhere and crank the game's volume down; now, all I can do is crank up VLC's volume to 175% or so (which gives some distortion) and bring overall volume down. PA does definitely offer features above what ALSA offers. Whether it's worth it depends on how much trouble it adds. :) ChrisA -- 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/CAPTjJmo6h0a34UpJKkyDzP6CDQj=gk3sv4hr-tphtqou0xo...@mail.gmail.com
