On 10-11-2014 16:03, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Le 10/11/2014 19:08, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : >> [...] >> >> Upgrading to Java 8 also raises the question in my mind if we would need to >> keep icedtea-web and icedtea-sound in the book. >> > > Those 2 plugins are not in OpenJDK 8. We definitely need to keep icedtea-web, > since it provides a browser plugin for java applets. > > Icedtea-sound is another story. It uses pulseaudio instead of alsa-lib. > Theoretically, it is better, since pulseaudio has real-time capabilities that > do not come with alsa-lib. I do not know whether it is possible to hear a > difference.
When I was updating gstreamer and relatives, decided to make the tests streaming to both pulseaudio (pulsesink) or alsa (alsasink) and was surprised by the impression that the sound was better with pulseaudio. Speakers used by the PC are external, but very cheap ones, so I never expected any subtle sound effect to be verifiable. -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
