On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 21:57 -0700, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > A lot of people don't need it since they want to use alsa/dmix > instead of esd. > > Why? How is ALSA superior to ESD, or for that matter aRts? Are ESD and > aRts abstraction layers built on top of ALSA?
Esd: - introduces extra latency - does not support 5.1 hardware playback - has crappy resampling - there's probably more Not that alsa is perfect, but when I watch DVDs, I want them to sound good. People who paid >$100 for their sound hardware, expect that to actually result in better sound. Ronald _______________________________________________ gnome-multimedia mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-multimedia
