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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 17:05:23
Message-Id: 201005221904.53535.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Phonon + PulseAudio Problem by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On Samstag 22 Mai 2010, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2 > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote:
3 > [...]
4 >
5 > > because you're not using software that needs good latency, like software
6 > > synthesizers) but I do.
7 >
8 > Then you're doing it wrong. If you are doing professional audio (a
9 > little fact, that, by the way, you *NEVER* mentioned; you talked about
10 > boot times and FPS in games, but not about professional audio), using
11 > PulseAudio it's not going to work for you. Lennart himself said so.
12 >
13 > But even in the case of professional audio, OSS4 is not the answer.
14 > Because the mixing it belongs in user space, not the kernel. The
15 > answer you should look at, is Jack:
16 >
17 > http://jackaudio.org/
18 >
19 > And Jack runs in user space, obviously, and on top of ALSA. And it has
20 > *incredible* low latencies; you should try it Lennart wrote a
21 > comparison between Jack and PulseAudio:
22 >
23 > http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html
24 >
25 > Regards.
26
27 your posts are in vain. He wants to troll and just show how 'superior' OSSv4
28 is. To do that he uses the crappiest solutions, whines a lot and ignores
29 facts.