On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 01:32 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 15 juillet 2009 à 12:00 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki a écrit : > > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Brian Cameron<[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > Solaris continues to use gst-mixer since Solaris does not yet provide > > > PulseAudio. PulseAudio doesn't provide as much value on Solaris since > > > OSSv4 provides mixing functionalities directly in the OSS layer. > > > > Would introducing PA have any downsides? Having a common abstraction > > layer for sound would likely make it easier to develop portable apps. > > Forcing PA breaks all pass-through setups, which are becoming less > uncommon with HDMI spreading. And that’s not specific to Solaris.
There's pasuspender for now, and there's already plans to fix this[1]. In all cases, pass-thru setups are too hard to setup on Linux, so it's not like the extra fiddling will hurt anyone (for now anyway). In the future, I don't see how we could have reasonable support for the use cases we want to handle (say, move one stream from internal speakers/soundcard to USB speakers) without having something like PA available. Using only ALSA (or a sound system with similar capabilities such as OSSv4) is a dead-end. [1]: https://tango.0pointer.de/pipermail/pulseaudio-discuss/2009-January/002897.html for example _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
