Still a long way to go

Still a long way to go

Posted Aug 4, 2007 9:17 UTC (Sat) by chel (guest, #11544)
In reply to: Still a long way to go by jrigg
Parent article: An Introduction to Linux Audio (O'Reilly)

I don't think the requirements are conflicting. At the moment mixed use of e.g. Flash, Mplayer, XMMS and VLC is a big problem. Just read the HOWTO pages and you will see it is unreachable without the thorough knowledge of the many sound systems available. For my professional audio (http://www.vangennip.com) I still use the Samplitude application that came with the soundcard I bought in the previous century. For the moment I don't have working tools in Linux to check if my audio and video really are in sync. Of the list posted by Drag, 90% or more should be removed completely, the remaining parts should be fixed to get a real working sound system. BTW, there is a major difference between realtime and fast. The major requirement of realtime is "predictable timing" and that won't hurt any application.

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