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Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO)Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO)Posted Oct 12, 2009 20:40 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767)Parent article: Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO)
> We inserted an entire new layer into our stack right in the middle, so that we can catch up with the more advanced audio stack that Mac OS X or Windows provide right now.
My impression over the last couple of years is that it took a system that basically worked, after years of maddening, hair-tearing unreliability... and smacked it right back into the Samsara of unreliablility from which it had finally emerged. It also added noticeable latency. And an unnecessary and redundant layer of volume controls. All in the name of... I'm not sure what. Probably some esoteric Vista bullet point marketing feature that few actually care about.
Thanks, Lennart.
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Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO) Posted Oct 12, 2009 23:34 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Well, it means we have mixing again on modern cards (which generally can
only play one stream at once and suck at resampling, if they can do it at all: no, I don't know why they've got *less* capable over the years either). And it means we have halfway decent networked audio (esound? don't make me laugh) without stutter.
Oh, and it means we can kill esound kill KILL KILL AHAHAHAHA *ahem*.
Everything else is just gravy.
(and, y'know, it's been perfectly stable for me with the exception of one
Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO) Posted Oct 13, 2009 5:29 UTC (Tue) by alankila (subscriber, #47141) [Link]
They have got less capable because other operating systems have become more capable.
Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO) Posted Oct 13, 2009 13:30 UTC (Tue) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
>Well, it means we have mixing again on modern cards (which generally can
only play one stream at once and suck at resampling, if they can do it at all
How does it improve upon ALSA in that area?
I've ragged on PA quite a bit in the past, but I'm still slightly interested because it would be nice to be able to, eg, reroute sound from a running Firefox instance to a USB headset, or back to the main soundcard, and PA AIUI should be able to do that trivially.
Open source identity: PulseAudio creator Lennart Poettering (CIO) Posted Oct 14, 2009 2:04 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Yep, PA does that nicely. It can even do it automagically, if your hardware and
drivers correctly label stuff and report jack sensing, I gather. PA can also transparently redirect your sound to other machines on the network, on the fly. With zero-conf auto-detection of other PA servers too.
The extra layer of volume controls is quite infuriating though - you can get very
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