On 2007-06-26 01:34:03 -0400 Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/20/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 4/19/07, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On 2007-04-16 14:06:17 -0400 Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > I found this audio server: Jack >>> > http://jackaudio.org/ >>> > It looks promising and mplayer support it. >>> > We can use it to play our system sound. >>> >>> You may also want to look at PulseAudio >>> http://pulseaudio.org/ >>> From what I can gather from a casual look, it seems more end-user >>> focused, while JACK seems more geared towards sound professionals. >>> >>> While mplayer doesn't support PulseAudio directly, there is a patch >>> on >>> the PulseAudio website to let mplayer support PulseAudio, and >>> PulseAudio can also act as an Esound server, which mplayer supports. >>> >>> And one good thing about it is that since it can act as an Esound >>> server, it can be used to serve GNOME sounds as well. >> >> Thank you for this information. >> It does look interesting. >> If we use mplayer, gstreamer or xine as backend, >> both solutions are covered by backend. >> So users can choose any of them as long as they set the >> environment right. >> Alert sound need to write directly into the audio server. >> But I think we are in no hurry to make a decision. >> We probably can wait a while to see which project stands in the >> end. :D > > David mentioned ffmpeg recently > and I found this tutorial: > http://www.dranger.com/ffmpeg/tutorial01.html > I guess it is on the low-level side, > which gives us flexibility, but needs more effort. > Well, I just put it on record besides two possible > audio servers mentioned above.
AFAICT, ffmpeg looks more like a library for encoding/decoding media formats than an audio server. By the way, another media playing library, other than mplayer, gstreamer, or xine, is vlc. http://www.videolan.org/ -- Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
