On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Juraj Ziegler wrote: > Is it solved yet? If not, I'll try to shed some light on it. > > Layers: > > * application > * gstreamer-sinker (sink-oss, sink-alsa, sink-esd) > * user-land soft mixer (ArTS, esound, dmix) > * kernel-level driver (oss, alsa, alsa with oss emulation) > * soundcard (obviously) > > > You should choose one kernel-level driver and one user-land mixer. > According to this, configure your application and the GNOME environment. > > E.g. I used alsa with oss emulation, esound as the mixer, no gnome > applications (which takes gstreamer out of the equation) and therefore have > all applications set to use their esd-output plugins. > > As to an Audio CD playing, this is always being mixed directly in the > soundcard. If you take any volume programs, you have one widget for CD, one > for output, one for PCM. Output is clear, CD sets the level of the CD channel. > The PCM channel is the one used, when you play a movie or a mp3, or your IM > client makes a beep. So CD is a completely different game. > > ArTS is, from our point of view, the same stuff as esound, just preferred by > KDE. > > I have no real experience with dmix, so please cut me some slack :). > > I am not sure, where in GNOME's control panel/center you can configure the > gstreamer sinkers, but I am sure you will find it in GConf. I expect that > the Totem player uses the gstreamer infrastructure. > > Hope this helps. If you are still confused, just ask. >
Okay -- I am still confused. Well, not so much confused.. but Esound doesn't seem to have any decent documentation. How do I configure application programs to use it? And where is it run from? I didn't see it in my /etc/init.d directory anywhere. And at least a few programs I use (e.g. ogle for dvds) don't have options to send sound to esd, and complain that /dev/dsp is not available... so esd has to be killed before I can play dvds. And what are these 'streamer sinkers' of which you speak? Googling for 'gstreamer-sinker' and 'sink-esd' both come up empty. By the way, where does an application like Macromedia Flash Plugin for Mozilla fit into this structure? -Brandon
