Why bother?
Why bother?
Posted Feb 20, 2009 11:03 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Why bother? by NAR
Parent article: FOSDEM09: RandR 1.3 and multimedia processing extensions for X
esd gives you audio over the network. The advantage of pulseaudio over it
is its pluggability, its lower CPU consumption, its lower latencies, its
huge swarms of extra features, the way it can imitate or output to
virtually anything, its active development, and the fact that it generally
doesn't suck.
is its pluggability, its lower CPU consumption, its lower latencies, its
huge swarms of extra features, the way it can imitate or output to
virtually anything, its active development, and the fact that it generally
doesn't suck.
Posted Feb 24, 2009 3:20 UTC (Tue)
by jlokier (guest, #52227)
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Why bother?
Yet I still have to kill the PulseAudio daemon sometimes before some apps produce sound. I don't believe the hype about PA's ability to imitate everything else, because it plainly fails at it.