Re: [Cooker] ANNOUNCE : Sound server for 2008.1

[Colin Guthrie]

Frederic Crozat wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> following various tests we made internally on both GNOME and KDE front
> (most of the finding have been already sent on cooker mailing list last
> week and this week), we have now reached a decision regarding Sound
> Server for Mandriva Linux 2008.1.
> 
> Drum roll ....
> 
> Suspense ...
> 
> we are going to switch to  ... PulseAudio !
> 
> (ok, ok, I guess you saw it coming :)
> 
> More seriously, switching to PulseAudio will allow us to maybe fix the
> various issues many people have been complaining for year on Linux about
> sound support.

Incidentally, if anyone wants a really good background into sound
systems generally and where PA fits in (especially with regards to dmix
- I really wish people would shut up about dmix...) I'd recommend taking
10 mins to flick through these slides:
http://foss.in/2007/register/slides/The_PulseAudio_Sound_Server_353.pdf

I recommend using presentation mode in kpdf.

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