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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system?
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 02:16:11
Message-Id: jihda5$g5c$1@dough.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best audio system? by "Canek Peláez Valdés"
1 On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
2 > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman
4 >> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman
7 >>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
8 >>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews
9 >>>>> <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote:
10 >>>>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there something
11 >>>>>> else out there that can handle multiple audio streams?
12 >>>>>
13 >>>>> alsa dmix
14 >>>>>
15 >>>>
16 >>>> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect that's
17 >>>> how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default.
18 >>>
19 >>> Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so.
20 >>>
21 >>
22 >> Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light turned on about how KDE (and I
23 >> suspect most desktop managers) is likely doing it.
24 >
25 > GNOME uses PulseAudio by default, and since 3.0 is actually mandatory.
26 > I believe Xfce uses PA also, and (please, tell me if I'm wrong) KDE
27 > also by default uses PA.
28
29 Nope. KDE uses whatever is supported by the Phonon backend. The
30 default is GStreamer, meaning that whatever GStreamer uses, KDE uses too.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What is the best audio system? Willie Matthews <matthews.willie@×××××.com>