On Monday, 1 December 2025 14:02:41 CET BALATON Zoltan wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2025, [email protected] wrote: > > From: Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]> [...] > > The following patch series provides a GStreamer-based audio backend, which > > could ultimately allow QEMU to leverage the framework to support the > > various audio subsystems and simplify the audio handling logic (timing, > > resampling, mixing etc), as well as allow greater pipeline flexibility > > and customization. > > While it's good to have a GStreamer backend to integrate well into systems > already using that, this should not replace existing audio backends in > QEMU. The reason is that GStreamer has extensive dependencies that I would > like to avoid and still be able to use QEMU with just an ALSA or SDL audio > backend that are much leaner and provide the needed functionality for most > cases. Also when using jack you'd want to have a QEMU backend for it not > going through multiple layers. So adding a GStreamer backend has its use > as another audio backend but not as a replacement for QEMU's audio > handling logic and backends. > > Regards, > BALATON Zoltan
I agree with Zoltan on this. GStreamer is nice as new backend, but I would also preserve the existing audio backends for the same reasons already described by Zoltan. /Christian
