On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:35:27 +0300 Jarno Suni <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Eero Tamminen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Saturday 17 April 2010, Jarno Suni wrote: > >>> As for the audio issues, I can only say that for me, pulseaudio is a > >>> tremendous improvement. I can finally use my sound! It works on all my > >>> systems, and I can even get the music I listen to to play through it. > >> > >> What is so special in playing music through pulseaudio? I'd say that > >> is basic work. > > > > Use Google. > > I do not understand what Charlie meant, but never mind. I can play > music even without pulseaudio. I can even use a digital connection to > amplifier. What I meant is that I was NOT able to play all the music before pulseaudio. That fact that you could did not really do any good for me. I need pulseaudio, apparently, myself. That doesn't mean everyone does, but it is now installed in Xubuntu by default, which until Lucid Lynx, it was not. > > >> Someone told me that the current pulseaudio requires much more CPU > >> power than alsa. Maybe that can be an issue to some users. > > > > By default Pulseaudio uses ALSA for the sound output. > > > > Additional features naturally need additional CPU. > > Well, it has happened that pulseaudio does something additional, > supposedly useless: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/207135 > But it is marked as fixed, so hopefully in Lucid there is no such problem. > > Still, If I have understood right, low latency requested by some > programs results in more CPU usage, when using pulseaudio. > -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [http://counter.li.org/] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [http://keepingdreams.com] -- xubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-devel
