On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 11:51:44AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Thu, 09.09.04 10:59, Robert Jonsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi! > > > I will try to push Polypaudio into both Gnome and KDE as replacement > > > for esound resp. aRts. > > I'm sorry but I think this is a dead mission. People has tried for years, and > > years, and years... to get this sorted out somehow. > > The latest I heard is that they finally are settling on gstreamer as a common > > backend. Stirring this up again might be in vain and possibly a bad > > idea. > I don't think this is in vain. BTW, what were the previous efforts for > an esound replacement? > > But please don't take my word for it, I'm not so well informed, do try and > > find out more about it. If gstreamer is not the saviour there is indeed a > > need for one. > Gstreamer doesn't do mixing of multiple audio streams from multiple > distinct processes. Currently, gstreamer sits on top of esound or > directly on OSS/ALSA. In the former case multiple programs may play > audio simultaneously, in the latter case only one at a time.
Is this still true? ALSA has had the dmix plugin for sometime now. -Eric Rz.
