From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2WOX-0001JJ-JG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:23:45 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A3B5AE058F; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:23:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pw0-f53.google.com (mail-pw0-f53.google.com [209.85.160.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB20E058F for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 23:22:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pbbjt11 with SMTP id jt11so1432770pbb.40 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of matthews.willie@gmail.com designates 10.68.129.166 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.129.166; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of matthews.willie@gmail.com designates 10.68.129.166 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=matthews.willie@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=matthews.willie@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.129.166]) by 10.68.129.166 with SMTP id nx6mr59665474pbb.153.1330471328717 (num_hops = 1); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:22:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=L2waa6o1veLtD2WVOCjXb56qDextZsj8sivP3RGe6uE=; b=B2YIpMojq1MwF4PpNSBTtgIxOF7TozMzkY3LGrp55sIDKMfy1iyBON2BoUa22J9dvz Z+hFj4XtaPURVyT8UBEz6T1G4c3hAGLNw3f6Bkm0CBULnTYz5adzH9y5QMUuaNtTQkZy tRKcIiW+1LoPZVRfXJ8s9ev0kOvIz3JC+2Meo= Received: by 10.68.129.166 with SMTP id nx6mr50254368pbb.153.1330471328595; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:22:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from mini (ip98-160-133-171.lv.lv.cox.net. [98.160.133.171]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c9sm16850208pbr.65.2012.02.28.15.22.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:22:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:20:18 -0800 From: Willie Matthews To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system? Message-ID: <20120228152018.5cdb6f23@mini> In-Reply-To: References: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 765d104a-4b8e-4a18-add7-b4ed93d31808 X-Archives-Hash: a7f9caff3e903979d0ef253c785781c0 On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:14:25 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht > > wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman > >> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark > >>> Knecht wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman > >>>> wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews > >>>>> 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. >=20 > Nope. KDE uses whatever is supported by the Phonon backend. The=20 > default is GStreamer, meaning that whatever GStreamer uses, KDE uses > too. >=20 >=20 Thanks for all of your help folks. Reading all the responses was quite educational. It seems that I will be sticking with pulseaudio. --=20 Willie Matthews matthews.willie@gmail.com