Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?

[Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:14:25 +0200
Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:

> On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman
> >> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark
> >>> Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman
> >>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews
> >>>>> <matthews.willie@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>>>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there
> >>>>>> something else out there that can handle multiple audio
> >>>>>> streams?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> alsa dmix
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect
> >>>> that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default.
> >>>
> >>> Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light turned on about how KDE (and I
> >> suspect most desktop managers) is likely doing it.
> >
> > GNOME uses PulseAudio by default, and since 3.0 is actually
> > mandatory. I believe Xfce uses PA also, and (please, tell me if I'm
> > wrong) KDE also by default uses PA.
> 
> Nope.  KDE uses whatever is supported by the Phonon backend.  The 
> default is GStreamer, meaning that whatever GStreamer uses, KDE uses
> too.
> 
> 

Thanks for all of your help folks. Reading all the responses was quite
educational. It seems that I will be sticking with pulseaudio.

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Willie Matthews
matthews.willie@gmail.com