Posted by: Administrator
on August 10, 2004 11:26 PM
ALSA's dmix plugin is a pretty severe omission from this article. The fact that he hypes the very new Jack Server, but omits dmix, NAS, and MAS makes me think that he's just trying to promote Jack.
I find all this software trying to define audio layers a bit misguided. I'd like someone to think about what Joe User wants here. The basic thing I want is to be able to listen to CDs or MP3s and still have system alerts come through. Also, being able to play swf/flash plugins without hogging the sound device. Things like network transparency and even audio input/recording are luxury features on a desktop system (and sound *output* is a luxury on a server).
I worked pretty hard to switch to ALSA's dmix about 6 months ago, and have been pretty happy. I just hope that gstreamer defaults to ALSA and KDE moves to gstreamer so I don't get sucked into another painful change.
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Re:dmix plugin for ALSA allows concurrent access
Posted by: Administrator on August 10, 2004 11:26 PMALSA's dmix plugin is a pretty severe omission from this article. The fact that he hypes the very new Jack Server, but omits dmix, NAS, and MAS makes me think that he's just trying to promote Jack.
I find all this software trying to define audio layers a bit misguided. I'd like someone to think about what Joe User wants here. The basic thing I want is to be able to listen to CDs or MP3s and still have system alerts come through. Also, being able to play swf/flash plugins without hogging the sound device. Things like network transparency and even audio input/recording are luxury features on a desktop system (and sound *output* is a luxury on a server).
I worked pretty hard to switch to ALSA's dmix about 6 months ago, and have been pretty happy. I just hope that gstreamer defaults to ALSA and KDE moves to gstreamer so I don't get sucked into another painful change.
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