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Posted Oct 7, 2009 22:10 UTC (Wed) by ncm (guest, #165)
In reply to: API target by drag
Parent article: LPC: The past, present, and future of Linux audio

Do I understand correctly, that if I write directly to PA, then a PA server needs to be running alongside my program, but if I write to Gstreamer, then I might actually be talking to PA, or to ALSA, or to Apple's or MS's services, and most of my code needn't know which? I expect discovering microphones and headsets, and volume controls for them, will be a nuisance no matter what.

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Posted Oct 7, 2009 22:43 UTC (Wed) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Yes. I think that is right. I never actually programmed anything dealing with
sound and expected it to work in windows (myself being limited to relatively
low-complexity python programs), but I expect that with Gstreamer you'll have
to depend on the platform to setup everything like that for you to use. So
it seems most appropriate for a standalone application you want to integrate
into the OS its running in.


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