On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:33 AM, Michal Hlavinka <mhlav...@redhat.com>wrote:
> > This reminds me your note: > > > > > > > https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-July/004519.htm > >l > > > > PA does not make use of hardware mixing. And I don't plan to change > > that. It's obsolete technology. CPUs these days come with extensions > > such as MMX or SSE precisely for speeding up DSP tasks such as PCM > > mixing. This is way more flexible that hw mixing, and definitely the > > way to the future, both on the desktop and on embedded envs as well. > > > > > > The "obsolete technology" -- who made this decision? Is it your private > > opinion or any suggestion from sound card manufacturers? > > > > It seems that HW companies still produce the "obsolete technology". > > First, I like pulseaudio, especially the ability of moving streams from one > sink to another is awesome for laptops with external sound card :o) > > But imo hw mixer (or other hw parts) are not that bad... we still have hw > accelerated graphic, math,... why not sound? Also this remains me that > pulseaudio eats 24 % of my (1.6GHz) cpu when mapping stereo stream to 5.1 > which (I suppose) some hw mixer could do while letting cpu free for other > tasks. Absolutely... IMO Pulseaudio needs some serious justification for its direction. -- projecthuh.com All of my bits are free, are yours? Fedoraproject.org
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