Hey guys, not really related to KDE but just kind of curious. The way that I understood it... PulseAudio came along because Alsa and OSS couldn't reliably handle multiple applications outputting sound at the sametime. Last night I moved from Fedora to Arch and I was getting everything set up; and I found that if I enabled DMIX support under Alsa, it was one less layer of overhead; still had ACTUAL hardware access (not just "Pulse Sound Server") And I could get outputs from multiple apps.
Now; one little caveat that was mentioned on the Arch Wiki was that DMIX can have really bad sampling by default, but that it was an easy fix under .asoundrc via " defaults.pcm.rate_converter "samplerate_best" " The downside to this was it caused higher CPU Usage; which as the industry says, CPU Power is cheap. Fedora, Ubuntu, Mageia, they all install PulseAudio by default...but really, is it necessary now that CPU's are more powerful and DMIX has its bugs worked out? It just seems like one more layer of overhead, one more layer of lost preformance because of abstraction, and one more layer where something can go wrong. If I'm wrong, PLEASE tell me because I'd love to learn something new. ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
