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 1S2CUT-0001sS-Lp for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:08:33 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AE25E07ED; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:08:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f53.google.com (mail-pz0-f53.google.com [209.85.210.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC462E07ED for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by dady25 with SMTP id y25so7025876dad.40 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of caneko@gmail.com designates 10.68.239.229 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.68.239.229; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of caneko@gmail.com designates 10.68.239.229 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=caneko@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=caneko@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.68.239.229]) by 10.68.239.229 with SMTP id vv5mr48354500pbc.125.1330394841278 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:07:21 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5Y5YsiRphibTrvSy4Uhho5LgNtb8a0GUDgwICdsA5zA=; b=xMvybJ7VGQwE1meaJfUyAI/Q2KoKBxL/zMY7wDfCy/PmgE+zUZigIa/JWNEmA185tJ VRfqnY/lP+zDawtXQZ5bBECtzUsG+PwQkpdXR3JlF0Q1qGc/azphh+4RmcGHfLx9o2A8 K9m+QPBY/ejuYARdi9MKJhtVwGrNPY7AIMrGs= 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 Received: by 10.68.239.229 with SMTP id vv5mr40851114pbc.125.1330394841116; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:07:21 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.68.59.231 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:07:21 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:07:21 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system? From: =?UTF-8?B?Q2FuZWsgUGVsw6FleiBWYWxkw6lz?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c373fb5f-55c4-47fa-b7e5-76db5f661a4c X-Archives-Hash: e06050814ff5f6a9d678d5035a8041ef 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 wrot= e: >>> 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 somethi= ng >>>>> 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. Jack (according to the PA maintainers) is for professional audio processing= . And please keep in mind that PulseAudio is so much more than "multiple audio streams". It's per-application volume control, seamlessly moving audio streams from one audio card to another, and really easy management of things like USB soundcards and bluetooth headsets. dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it will never be able to do the other stuff PA handles. Regards. --=20 Canek Pel=C3=A1ez Vald=C3=A9s Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingenier=C3=ADa de la Computaci=C3=B3n Universidad Nacional Aut=C3=B3noma de M=C3=A9xico