Erik Hofman wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 22:01 +0000, Martin Spott wrote:
>> I know that PA is subject to well-founded criticism because it puts a
>> lot more load onto the 'server' machine than a clever system design
>> would allow - but, hey, it works quite nicely with nowadays speedy
>> CPU's ;-)
>
> That's a nice way of saying they know what they want but not how to
> implement it, well said.
Mmmmh, I'm not really certain, could have been a deliberate design
decision as well. Look, our old SGI's are having a dedicated audio DSP
on board, the more, errrm, 'recent' models even had a custom DSP
because the Motorola breed wasn't powerful enough. BTW, I still have my
old Octane2 because some of the niche features are still unchallenged
in PeeCee land :-)
In contrast (as far as I'm informed) the mainstream PeeCee hardware
doesn't bring _any_ sort of hardware support for audio mangling - with
the sole exception of a multi-channel mixer, which even could be an
analog implementation in some cases. Thus it's already common use to do
sample rate frequency conversion in application-software on the CPU -
which I think is a cruelty, but maybe "good enough" in times when the
MP3 format serves as a quality reference to most users ....
Maybe PulseAudio is doing nothing else than just picking up mainstream
attitudes - intentionally.
Best regards,
Martin.
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