On Saturday 13 March 2010, George Kiagiadakis wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Michael Schuerig <[email protected]> wrote: [snipped]
> Yes, phonon is just a multimedia player API and is only relevant for > applications that have been developed with it. It is not a sound > system like arts used to be in KDE 3. Pulseaudio provides a system > like that, where it creates virtual alsa/oss devices so that > applications that are not aware of it can output sound via the > pulseaudio server and it has controls for different categories of > applications, as well as separate volume control for each > application, etc... > > > As for the Debian-connection: Is there any preferred way for audio > > on Debian systems? > > Afaik there is only confusion... I am happy here with ALSA, which > works out of the box on linux systems. Others prefer pulseaudio, but > I only have heard bad comments about it, so I am not very willing to > try it. Thanks for the overview. Too bad about pulseaudio, I would have liked a way to make Skype fit in seamlessly. Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:[email protected] http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
