Klaus Ethgen [2008-06-17 14:06 +0100]: > > The alternative to esound is not really ALSA, but rather pulseaudio. > > Is pulsaudio supported by applications like wine for example? Do > pulsaudio work on top of OSS?
pulseaudio provides an esound ABI compatibility layer, thus it's a drop-in replacement. It also provides OSS and ALSA emulation for legacy applications; of course there will still be problems left with those, it can never be 100% transparent (especially not for OSS, which does not have a library API, but is so close to the metal). > OSS: Works well. > OSS<-ESD: Works well too. Ubuntu got a lot of bug reports about random desktop crashes/deadlocks with esound, that's why I learned to hate it so much (apart from the totally ridiculous video A/V desync). > ALSA: The problems above. > ALSA<-ESD: I never really tested. Thanks for your insights! Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)
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