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 1S2DYf-0001tB-5j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:17:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A9C44E0918; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:16:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DC1E08FE for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:15:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84951B4001 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:15:17 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.308 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.308 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.497, BAYES_00=-1.9, DCC_CHECK=1.1, 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 36FdomHMrD-Y for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:15:11 +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 80D691B4003 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 03:15:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2DWs-0002Vg-QZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:15:06 +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 04:15:06 +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 04:15:06 +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 05:11:42 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120227135021.025a9e41@mini> <20120228023024.GB8673@eisen.lan> 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=ISO-8859-1; 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: <20120228023024.GB8673@eisen.lan> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f49bfc42-b4a8-40ca-a8b6-55f7db454bfb X-Archives-Hash: a9a2df3f6f55df435d67c70ff4224e12 On 28/02/12 04:30, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Pel=E1ez Vald=E9s wrote= : > >>>>> 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. > > KDE has the phonon layer, which features a PA useflag, but also a flag = for > gstreamer and vlc. These are not related though. PA is not a substitute for gstreamer or vl= c.