Re: To pulse or not to pulse?
Am Mittwoch, 18. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:20 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> >> I'm very happy with the old ESD
> >
> >
> >
> > And you can be happy for good reasons! However, IIRC for KDE it was
> > aRts and it never caused issues for my jack orientated workflow and
> > pro-audio cards.
>
> aRts was ESD's counterpart in KDE, IIRC.
>
> Anyway, we deserve the price to pay (PA can be complex to setup) for
> having a full-featured and advanced sound server with interesting
> capabilities regardless we use all of the features or not.
I wish
- jitter-free (no audio drops)
- no hearable latency
- works as drop-in just like before
- works as reliable as before
without any single configuration needed.
Thats about it.
But even with rtkit installed, I had sound drops on my ThinkPad T23 upto a
30 seconds. Granted there are aged BTRFS filesystems on it and Amarok 2
takes its share of CPU as well, but the CPU is not at 100% and without
Pulseaudio these long audio drops are just gone for good.
At some time I decided that I do not want to configure anything to just be
able to hear sound clearly, nicely, without latencies and drops! Heck,
even my Amiga 500 was able to do that. Sure not with MPEG3, but it could
play audio without drops.
And that mentioned VLC 1-2 second latency between video and audio was on a
ThinkPad T520 with Intel i5 Sandybridge - rtkit installed and working of
course as well. That machine is so blazingly fast that it cannot have any
hearable audio latencies. And also here by removing Pulseaudio this
latencies has gone for good.
So if removing software fixes my problems more easily than trying to adapt
it to my needs, then by all means at some point I remove it. And I tried
to cope with it for quite some time before.
I know it can be different on any other machine than my machines and for
those that are satisfied with Pulseaudio by all means use it. I do think I
will wait half a hear or even longer before I try again.
Ciao,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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