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Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 9, 2013 2:40 UTC (Mon) by ThinkRob (guest, #64513)
In reply to: Another daemon for managing control groups by pizza
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> Meanwhile, Pulseaudio's user-facing problems were threefold -- Bugs in hardware drivers, bugs in ALSA's user plugin system, and horrendously buggy applications. Oh, and it was still a vast, vast improvement over what came before. (I say this as someone who has written a decent amount of audio code over the years..)

Wasn't one of the somethings that came before something that had per-application mixing, a consistent cross-platform API (and cross-platform implementations), existing application support, and precise, lower-latency mixing? i.e. most of pulse's features, sans network streaming?

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Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 9, 2013 13:44 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (1 responses)

If you're thinking of JACK, it is a little on the high end and complicated for just getting mplayer to play audio at the same time as notifications. Pulseaudio works with JACK for handoff IIRC, so they can cooperate. If you're thinking of OSS4 or aRTS, I think those are pretty much dead in Linux-land.

Another daemon for managing control groups

Posted Dec 10, 2013 5:56 UTC (Tue) by ThinkRob (guest, #64513) [Link]

I was thinking of OSS4, which is both still developed for, and still quite usable in Linux. It's just (sadly) no longer the default, in large part due to self-inflicted wounds.