Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone
Hi,
On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 22:51:31 +0300
Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> wrote:
> On 6/4/19 10:24 PM, Kaj Persson wrote:
> > I am running Debian 9 Stretch. After the OS install the Pulseaudio is
> > by default the standard audio system with Alsa as the executor. Which
> > is the best strategy to remove Pulseaudio and instead letting Alsa be
> > the one and only audio system?
>
> PulseAudio is some kind of mixer/proxy between ALSA and desktop
> applications. In modern GNU/Linux OSes it's discouraged to remove/not
> using PulseAudio.
>
> Are there any serious disadvantages doing so?
>
> If you don't use PulseAudio then only one application can use an ALSA
> device at the same time on your computer.
really? Here I can play back a video in firefox and play another video
from harddisk in vlc and the sound tracks are happily mixed by alsa (not
that it's an enjoyable experience, but it works :)
Regards
Michael
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