On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 15:00 +0200, Maxim Levitsky wrote: > First of all, I like the idea of pulseaudio, but currently it just > doesn't work on any of my systems, and no skype isn't the only reason, > but there are much more: > > 1 - recording doesn't work at all, don't remember exactly what was > broken, but it is broken.
Don't know if this is related, but some codecs have just plain broken recording. > Lastly, I have a question, what it the ulitimate goal of PA? > Will it be the only sound interface to be accessed directly when there > is need to do PCM playback/recording, and complex format decoders like > gstreamer will talk directly to PA, or there be yet another abstraction > (I have heard about libcanabera, or so Yes, I think it's meant to get rid of all the "is it an ALSA or OSS app?" junk and just have one unified interface for all sound in GTK apps. KDE uses Phonon. By the way, for Skype, you might be able to set up ALSA to use dmix so that ALSA mixes Skype's direct-ALSA output with PulseAudio. Neither will have an exclusive lock on the audio device to block the other then. -- Mackenzie _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
