Re: PulseAudio

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

On 07/17/2013 09:26 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 10:58:49AM +0200, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> > I am sorry, but in my eyes, people who claim that PulseAudio is useless
> > simply don't realize that there can be sound setups which are a little
> > more sophisticated than just a single sound card and configuring
> > these can be PITA when you don't have PA.
>
> I certainly wouldn't claim that PulseAudio is useless - I quite appreciate
> its features for desktop control of managing multiple sound inputs/outputs,
> precisely for the reasons mentioned in this thread - but "once bitten, twice
> shy".

I don't want to point fingers here, but there is a distribution with a
parent company in South Africa which is infamous for adopting upstream
new upstream projects before they have matured. Be it PulseAudio or
KDE 4.0.

Adrian

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