Re: aRts crashes playing streams

[Anders Ellenshøj Andersen <andersa@ellenshoej.dk>]

mandag 15 maj 2006 19:32 skrev Derek Broughton:

> > So, as this remains undenied even on this kde-list and is covered by my
> > experiences. I have to believe it ;-)
>
> It just didn't rate a response.  There may be better sound daemons, but
> _sound_ is basically crap if you don't use one of them.  I'll stick to
> arts.

Please elaborate. Alsa does hardware mixing and as far as I know it emulates 
it pretty good on sound cards that doesn't support hardware mixing. I don't 
see how you need anything else.

I tried using arts as my catch all sound solution but was thouroughly 
disappointed with its performance. Its a cpu hog. It crashes often. It hangs 
just as often. It is slow to respond to user input. In short.. Well I already 
said that..

I go directly to alsa with anything but system sounds. When KDE 4 comes and 
the sound system gets abstracted out, I will get rid of arts completely. That 
will be a good day.

Anders

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