On 4/20/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/19/07, Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-04-16 14:06:17 -0400 Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I found this audio server: Jack > > > http://jackaudio.org/ > > > It looks promising and mplayer support it. > > > We can use it to play our system sound. > > > > You may also want to look at PulseAudio > > http://pulseaudio.org/ > > From what I can gather from a casual look, it seems more end-user > > focused, while JACK seems more geared towards sound professionals. > > > > While mplayer doesn't support PulseAudio directly, there is a patch on > > the PulseAudio website to let mplayer support PulseAudio, and > > PulseAudio can also act as an Esound server, which mplayer supports. > > > > And one good thing about it is that since it can act as an Esound > > server, it can be used to serve GNOME sounds as well. > > Thank you for this information. > It does look interesting. > If we use mplayer, gstreamer or xine as backend, > both solutions are covered by backend. > So users can choose any of them as long as they set the environment right. > Alert sound need to write directly into the audio server. > But I think we are in no hurry to make a decision. > We probably can wait a while to see which project stands in the end. :D
David mentioned ffmpeg recently and I found this tutorial: http://www.dranger.com/ffmpeg/tutorial01.html I guess it is on the low-level side, which gives us flexibility, but needs more effort. Well, I just put it on record besides two possible audio servers mentioned above. Yen-Ju > > Yen-Ju > > > > > -- > > Hubert Chan - email & Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ > > PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA (Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net) > > Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Etoile-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
