On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 04:14:25 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote:
> On 28/02/12 04:07, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Hartman > >> <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Mark > >>> Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Paul Hartman > >>>> <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Willie Matthews > >>>>> <matthews.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>>>>> Right now I use pulseaudio on my laptop and desktop. Is there > >>>>>> something else out there that can handle multiple audio > >>>>>> streams? > >>>>> > >>>>> alsa dmix > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> Isn't dmix pretty much automatic in als these days? I suspect > >>>> that's how KDE supports multiple audio streams by default. > >>> > >>> Yep, I think it's automatic since alsa 1.0.9 or so. > >>> > >> > >> Yeah, when you wrote dmix the light turned on about how KDE (and I > >> suspect most desktop managers) is likely doing it. > > > > GNOME uses PulseAudio by default, and since 3.0 is actually > > mandatory. I believe Xfce uses PA also, and (please, tell me if I'm > > wrong) KDE also by default uses PA. > > Nope. KDE uses whatever is supported by the Phonon backend. The > default is GStreamer, meaning that whatever GStreamer uses, KDE uses > too. > > Thanks for all of your help folks. Reading all the responses was quite educational. It seems that I will be sticking with pulseaudio. -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com
