On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 18:27 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > 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. Recording isn't perfect here, on board mic doesn't work, I found why, but have no time to submit a patch (I told about this to alsa developers, I told exactly what to do to fix this), but recording from extrnal mic works fine.
> > > 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. > I tried that, no this setup is very unstable. (Still ether PA has to adopt to dmix, or alsa pa plugin should work in all cases) Maxim Levitsky _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
