Re: To pulse or not to pulse?
Am Freitag, 20. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:32:26 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 19. Juli 2012 schrieb Camaleón:
> >> On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 07:29:19 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 2012-07-18 at 15:57 +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> >> >> 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.
> >> >
> >> > The sound server issue becomes more annoying with each day.
> >> > Currently it's hip to use Jack with DBus support, a PITA
> >> > regarding to my needs. I wonder how newbies should be able to
> >> > handle all this stuff.
> >>
> >> For my usual setups that's not a concern but basically because I
> >> don't make an advanced use of the sound facility other than
> >> watching flash videos in Youtube and playing multimedia content
> >> locally with Totem or Rhythmbox. Under this scenario PA causes me
> >> zero headaches.
> >
> > For me it doesn´t. I only use
> >
> > - Flash / HTML 5 (preferable) videos
> > - Amarok
> > - Dragon Player / Kaffeine with file or DVD playback - USB sound card
> >
> > with Phonon VLC.
>
> (...)
>
> MAybe the difference here is that I'm using GNOME and P-A was
> integrated in the GNOME environment since years so maybe is more
> polished here.
Well, could be.
At some time I might revisit PulseAudio.
As written, I had some apt-get purge and install cycles with Network
Manager but now use it on all of my laptops – but not on the workstation
at work, cause then it happened that I logon while my NFS home is not yet
mounted due to network not up yet.
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