https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381686 User bjorn.lie@gmail.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381686#c3 --- Comment #3 from Bjørn Lie <bjorn.lie@gmail.com> 2008-04-23 14:30:04 MST --- I'd like to add that performance is horrible. Playing a mp3 in Banshee and changing active window (to firefox or whatever) makes the playback skip...... Further, there is now way to control the individual channels, aka move the volume for one channel == move for all channels (and there is no way to uncheck lock for all) Opening up alsamixer helps somewhat, if you are able to figure out that the old mixer (default) is not the one you want, but have to change to ALSA PCM on surround51:0 (ADC Capture/Standard PCM Playback) In this applet it's possible to unlock the channels and control them individuallay, but if one touches the PA Volumecontrol, everyting reverts to same audio level for all channels. (ofcource this all only works if you have figured out that one now has to edit a config file for makeing stuff that just worked before work now) But the biggest problem is what I started with in this comment, the performance. For someone actually doing something productive with sound under linux will be running for the hills, the latency for this "sound server" is appaling. I know pulseaudio is all the rave now for all distros, and that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, but I say the bread is not cooked yet, the distros took it out of the oven to early.... PS, just for fun I did a search in ubuntu forums, one of the first hits was this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=754125&highlight=pulseaudio&page=4 Why is Pulse Audio included with 8.04 by default? Okay.... I love the ability to manage audio streams, but it seems like there's a lot of features that are still missing, particularly a decent to fully functional mixer for all audio channels. My overall impression: I think some users are going to be pissed when they install 8.04 and all of a sudden their sound only comes out of two front speakers instead of all of them, and no way to adjust bass and treble. I'm one such user, disappointed (for the time being) by Pulse Audio's LACK of features. It's great proof on concept, but is it really ready to be included with Ubuntu by default? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.