Am Dienstag, 18. Dezember 2012, 23:02:41 schrieb Marc Joliet: > Am Tue, 18 Dec 2012 13:34:07 +0000 > schrieb Kevin Chadwick <ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk>: > > [...] > > > Going back in time > > his claim of pulse audio being good for professional audio was also > > completely off the mark. Seperating Gnome and pulse can now cause pro > > audio users on binary distro's major headaches too. I pointed one > > fellow in the direction of a pro audio on gentoo tutorial rather than > > deal with some new problems a little after systemd hit Arch. > > Holy cow, did he really? Link, please! I thought pulseaudio was only ever > advertised for desktop and some embedded use cases, and that Lennart is > perfectly aware of the fundamental differences between JACK and PA and that > they target a completely different range of applications [0]. I wouldn't > *dream* of using anything other than JACK (with LADISH) for pro-audio work > (well, more like "home recording" in my case, but close enough). > > I actually like pulseaudio for desktop use, though. When you start JACK it > will kindly get out of the way, so the two aren't necessarily mutually > exclusive (actually, you can set it up to automatically set up ports in > JACK2 with the jackdbus-detect module, if you want that). After a few years > of use I finally ended up requiring one of its more "advanced" features: > moving streams between sound cards at runtime. > > [0] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/when-pa-and-when-not.html
remember this? a solution without a problem to solve, making a lot of people's lifes harder, dropped onto them by the godlike Lennart P.? http://lalists.stanford.edu/lad/2009/06/0218.html -- #163933
