2013/10/5 Sid Boyce
On 05/10/13 15:19, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Saturday 2013-10-05 16:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Pulse audio solves the problem that I had of two applications or more wanting to use sound at the same time, which was impossible for me. Some cards did allow this, mine did not.
While it is true that some soundcard do support hardware mixing and some don't, ALSA already has a softmixer - it does not need another one like PA for that.
Some of us need networked sound, without pulseaudio some of our apps would not work. Since version 1 pulseaudio worked and those of us who use it on different distros found no problems right up through to version 4.
When I read that "it doesn't need ......" I smiled, like the time when I was asked on the VirtualBox forum what I needed 2 sound cards for? Sometimes I have needed 4.
In the last case, I have the equivalent to 3 sound cards, because, is the integrated on the motherboard, the output to hdmi from the video chip, and the usb-audio, from which I wanted to record, and all the times PA stopped the recording, until I disabled it. In other computer which has 3 sound cards, the integrated on the motherboard, the output to hdmi from the video chip, and a waveterminal 194 sound card, and the only way to access the setting of the sample clock rate of this card was disabling PA. Thanks, Juan -- USA LINUX OPENSUSE QUE ES SOFTWARE LIBRE, NO NECESITAS PIRATEAR NADA Y NI TE VAS A PREOCUPAR MAS POR LOS VIRUS Y SPYWARES: http://www.opensuse.org/es/ Puedes visitar mi blog en: http://jerbes.blogspot.com.ar/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org