Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread YoYo Siska
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it will never be able to do the other stuff PA handles. This seems like a dumb

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Tue, 28 Feb 2012 10:06:16 +0100 schrieb YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk: On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 03:30:24AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: dmix *may* be able to handle multiple audio streams (in practice, in my personal experience, it always requires more work than PA); but it will

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:06:16AM +0100, YoYo Siska wrote: This seems like a dumb question (for I was a strict PA denier until recently and have been using alsa-only since always), but does PA handle OSS applications better than alsa/dmix? Whenever I want to use sidplay, which only

[gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Willie Matthews
Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com Jack handles multiple streams very

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
You should check airfoil [1]. It's a multiplatform sound system but it's not open source. Haven't actually tried it myself as pulseaudio fits my needs. ** refs: [1] http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/ On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
no, I missunderstood what it is for, airfoil can only play streams from windows or mac, the output could be linux though, but anyways it isn't what you are looking for. 2012/2/27 Juan Diego Tascón juantas...@gmail.com: You should check airfoil [1]. It's a multiplatform sound system but it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams? alsa dmix

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so. Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system?

2012-02-27 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 08:07:21PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. Yep, I think it's