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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: PulseAudio & ALSA
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:45:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1s5v9pk.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874mec6jau.fsf_-_@gnu.org>


Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

>> Wouldn’t that be a better solution than to add the pulseaudio package to
>> the inputs wherever possible?
>
> Dunno.  It seems to me that applications that are PA-aware can have
> better integration, like have their name shown in pavucontrol and
> similar interfaces, which is quite useful.

I take your word for it.  I haven’t noticed.

> There are also technical complications: alsa-lib must be able to find
> its PulseAudio plug-in (currently we don’t build it since alsa-lib would
> depend on PulseAudio), and it must be one that can actually be dlopened
> by every process out there (linked against the same libc, etc.)

Hmm, that does sound hairy.

~~ Ricardo

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-09 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-12  5:26 [PATCH 0/2] Add eSpeak Leo Famulari
2016-01-12  5:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] gnu: Add sonic Leo Famulari
2016-01-13 14:10   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-14  3:28     ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-12  5:26 ` [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add espeak Leo Famulari
2016-01-13 14:17   ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-14  3:27     ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-15  0:38       ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-15 16:15         ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-14 12:02     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-14 13:32       ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-01-17 16:09         ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-01-17 20:30           ` PulseAudio & ALSA Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 21:45             ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-01-12  5:58 ` [PATCH 0/2] Add eSpeak Leo Famulari
2016-01-12  6:01   ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-12 15:48   ` Andreas Enge
2016-01-12 19:30     ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-13  0:09       ` Leo Famulari
2016-01-13 14:01 ` PulseAudio Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-09 21:26   ` PulseAudio Christopher Allan Webber
2016-02-09 21:35     ` PulseAudio Leo Famulari
2016-02-12  9:12       ` PulseAudio Ludovic Courtès
2016-02-12 10:21         ` PulseAudio Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-12 11:13           ` PulseAudio Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-02-15  7:38             ` PulseAudio Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-15  8:56               ` PulseAudio Alex Sassmannshausen
2016-02-09 21:43     ` PulseAudio Ricardo Wurmus
2016-02-09 23:36     ` PulseAudio Jookia

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