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 1S28e5-0005r7-QP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:02:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1D03E0805; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:01:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9363E0793 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 22:00:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhi8 with SMTP id hi8so3549827wib.40 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:07 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of markknecht@gmail.com designates 10.180.83.70 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.180.83.70; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of markknecht@gmail.com designates 10.180.83.70 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=markknecht@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=markknecht@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.180.83.70]) by 10.180.83.70 with SMTP id o6mr927305wiy.19.1330380007256 (num_hops = 1); Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:07 -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; bh=0Xma9iSzCyfvQs7u3akkOnq/cg9jl3U6knX3k2tmVAE=; b=KdpXwN3zc48qhZVouhcX1+Qp9r+vCxXFX4CN1UHPur4oPLgGbo1zm404QFyZPFllu8 qDYnoUWbWqTupX55m9vgjVw/V9w9K5vuboV1Zgg+NxIoSYjil9QvKKvLEN5fpAtG9jSQ 4YeTWeBVhxb2UTefPZyy3RYxJU+a1wmrHkZOw= 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 10.180.83.70 with SMTP id o6mr726324wiy.19.1330380007164; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.223.4.154 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> References: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:00:07 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system? From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: c000a792-9c10-4f2f-a0a3-60f7d07094ee X-Archives-Hash: cf748a004453c98a58a2fc8298d3656f On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 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? > > -- > > Willie Matthews > matthews.willie@gmail.com > Jack handles multiple streams very well but it's difficult to use if you're not willing to invest a lot of time and not all apps support it. I've never used pulseaudio so I cannot speak to that personally. I also wonder what KDE is doing under the hood. I use multiple VMs all day long - both VMWare Player and Virtualbox. I get audio from both of those at the same time, as well as from Firefox or xine running native in Linux, so I'm doing multiple streams and mixing them in KDE all automatically. I've never studied how KDE does it, but empirically it certainly can do multiple streams. HTH, Mark