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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:14:25 +0200 |
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Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> |
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> > wrote: |
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> >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman |
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> >> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark |
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> >>> Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman |
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> >>>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews |
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> >>>>> <matthews.willie@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >>>>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there |
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> >>>>>> something else out there that can handle multiple audio |
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> >>>>>> streams? |
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> >>>>> |
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> >>>>> alsa dmix |
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> >>>> |
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> >>>> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect |
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> >>>> that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. |
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> >>> Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so. |
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> >> Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light turned on about how KDE (and I |
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> >> suspect most desktop managers) is likely doing it. |
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> > GNOME uses PulseAudio by default, and since 3.0 is actually |
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> > mandatory. I believe Xfce uses PA also, and (please, tell me if I'm |
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> > wrong) KDE also by default uses PA. |
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> Nope. KDE uses whatever is supported by the Phonon backend. The |
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> default is GStreamer, meaning that whatever GStreamer uses, KDE uses |
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> too. |
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Thanks for all of your help folks. Reading all the responses was quite |
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educational. It seems that I will be sticking with pulseaudio. |
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Willie Matthews |
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matthews.willie@×××××.com |