On 05/04/2012 10:30 PM, Luke Kuhn wrote:
All these bugs and "no sound output" complaints with Pulseaudio bring back the idea of finding a way to make Jack replace Pulseaudio altogether.
The "no sound output" most probably happens with special cards, like multi channel cards that do not have a standard interface (stereo, 5.1 and so on) for pulseaudio to read. At least one chip has been made functional - ice1712 (m-audio M-66, 1010 etc). As for other bugs, I don't feel there are that many anymore. Nothing like there used to be. Even pulseaudio + jack works pretty well. Causing xruns at low latencies, but then I would not use pulseaudio with jack at low latencies. And, if you can't get sound directly from pulseaudio, using jack + pulseaudio in effect becomes a replacement for pulseaudio. The benefit here is of course that you can connect pulseaudio apps to your jack apps.
I wasn't very happy with pulseaudio in the past because of mainly two reasons - I got no sound out with my ice1712 cards, and the servers was crashing quite often. For a long time now, I've found pulse to work quite well. Pulseaudio + jack is a little frail for me still. Sometimes pulseaudio will start to stutter.
I think the main problem is not pulseaudio itself anymore. It would be nice to have a simple way to turn it off. I think it's more about desktop control than the server itself that is the issue these days.
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