I'm seeing pulse audio installed on a few distros. I am
wondering what the advantage is of pulse audio over alsa for
sound?
On Fri, 9 May 2014 15:26:05 -0600
Gustin Johnson wrote:
> The "average" person is not doing multi-track sequencing,
> composition, and arrangements. To be clear, the audio
Pulse is just a layer that sits on top of either ALSA or OSS. ALSA is
still likely doing the actual heavy lifting and talking to the hardware.
The advantage is that pulse provides a nice consistent, *well documented*
API (ALSA is kind of a nightmare in this regard), and handles multiple
audio str
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