gstreamer (was Re: gnome sound)

["Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwbaker@acm.org>]

I also want to mention that anyone wishing to stay on the forefront of
Linux multimedia needs to investigate the GStreamer project at
http://www.gstreamer.net/

-jwb

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:

> > BTW, I don't know much about ALSA, but it is not possible to have alsa
> > _and_ other stuff at the same time (I tried so I could dabble with it
> > and see what it is about).
>
> This is not true.  ALSA provides OSS emulation.  All of your ALSA and OSS
> applications can use the sound device at the same time.  Many applications
> (ESD, XMMS, vlc, Xine, arts) can be configured to use either the
> (superior) ALSA interface or the old OSS interface.
>
> > A nice feature of esd, though I haven't really tried it yet, is the
> > ability to play sound remotely.  This would be cool to have the laptop
> > on the LAN with real speakers plugged in but playing the mp3s from my
> > workstation.
>
> This is a nice feature!  Again I wish to repeat that ESD works fine with
> ALSA, and ALSA allows as many applications as you want to use the sound
> device.
>
> -jwb
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