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 1S2Cbr-0002by-7F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:16:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 41106E0899; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:16:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AFADE0732 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:14:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D86861B4011 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:14:51 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.855 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.855 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.056, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6QihlLdcHe-N for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:14:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5596C1B4001 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:14:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2CaN-0006Du-TV for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:14:39 +0100 Received: from athedsl-342564.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.193.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:14:39 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-342564.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:14:39 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system? Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:14:25 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> 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; format=flowed X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-342564.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120213 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7efa8568-024a-4599-b464-327245af1765 X-Archives-Hash: 87379d0605e64334a6f7598a32800621 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 wro= te: >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman >> wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht w= rote: >>>> 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 some= thing >>>>>> 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=20 default is GStreamer, meaning that whatever GStreamer uses, KDE uses too.