On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 11:39:06AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
But the normal case is that uninstalling a software you also stop getting the functionality it provides, with pulseaudio you START getting the functionality it claims to provide by uninstalling it.Really? Uninstalling Pulseaudio gives you a graphical interface for moving streams of audio between devices? Uninstalling Pulseaudio gives you software mixing of audio streams? Uninstalling Pulseaudio gives you
Alsa is using the DMIX plugin for years, and before that I always had soundcards with hardware mixing. Simply buy the proper tools.
the ability to stream your audio across the network?
And if you don’t need these features?
Well, yes, if you've done the work to set all that up externally to Pulseaudio, then of course you don't need Pulseaudio(!)
Most people simply want to play audio, no streaming, no stream moving, etc.
I have a USB soundcard. If I power it on pulseaudio doesn’t recognize it or only the analog output (I want to use the digital output). I have to restart pulseaudio (even with the current version in Debian Testing).
And now guess what is always working? Right, Alsa. If necessary it takes less than 10 seconds to reconfigure the sound device in the application.
So why should I use pulseaudio? Shade and sweet water! Stephan -- | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: stse@fsing.rootsland.net | | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html |
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