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Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Posted Jun 1, 2006 9:00 UTC (Thu) by rjw (guest, #10415)Parent article: Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Ubuntu dropped polypaudio and reverted to esound because of unreasonable CPU usage,IIRC. Has this issue been solved?
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Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Posted Jun 1, 2006 10:01 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
The plural of anecdote is not data, but I've found polypaudio to have substantially lower CPU consumption than esound, not least because esound tended to go into CPU-hogging endless loops.polypaudio 0.8+ now uses liboil for many tight inner loops, which should one hopes reduce this problem.
Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Posted Jun 1, 2006 11:01 UTC (Thu) by k8to (subscriber, #15413) [Link]
I do not believe "distribution X dropped technology Y because of problemZ" is an isolated anecdote. When one considers that the people working
on that decision probably want to make good choices, it is more than a
side story, although it may merit more investigation.
Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Posted Jun 1, 2006 17:46 UTC (Thu) by edgewood (subscriber, #1123) [Link]
I believe nix's comment about anecdotes referred to his own experience with Polypaudio, not Ubuntu's.
Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Posted Jun 5, 2006 16:43 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Indeed it did. Ubuntu's experience is at least a much more *widely-experienced* anecdote. :)
Polypaudio, a networked sound server
Posted Jun 1, 2006 22:50 UTC (Thu) by NoTiG (guest, #38147) [Link]
here is what the comment in the ubuntu wiki said :
done: dmix by default, gstreamer->alsa, libesd-alsa, default sound card selector, polypaudio bug fixing, Red Hat hack investigation, esd and polypaudio reconnect; hotplug dialog prepared, but not uploaded (pending discussion); /dev/dsp hack impossible; (2005-07-19): polypaudio still too unstable, so breezy will stay with esd; (2005-07-19): remaining issues: configuration dialog on hotplug, test beep/capture;(2005-08-02): implemented last outstanding bit: hotplug response, upload pending libnotify promotion to main; (2005-08-05): libnotify has problems on powerpc, will debug; outstanding: some cleanup of the ~/.asoundrc configuration backend (with jdthood), some bug fixes; (2005-08-10): fixed notify, added hotplug notification to g-v-m; test beep/capture will be deferred after discussion with mdz. (2005-08-22) All fxed and completed.