On 02/07/15 22:47, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Am Do den 2. Jul 2015 um 8:55 schrieb Jaromil:
>> We see Devuan as a system for professionals, not consumers, and
>> that also includes audio/video professionals.
>>
>> Pulseaudio will likely be eliminated from available choices,
>> because of its poor latency and lack to support anything that is
>> not just a desktop player or voip application. From an upstream POV
>> I can well understand why professional software like hydrogen or
>> ardour have very little interest in supporting pulseaudio and even
>> if they'll do PA won't ever be the best option for those of us
>> using all this in studio production environments.
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> What will be the alternatives? ALSA never worked for me to a usefull
> state. It has partly translated config files but not in the parser,
> has always cracking sound and kernel panics. It lags the ability to
> play multiple streams and more.

What sort of sound card/chipsets? I've used it on Digital Audio
Workstations (using jackd) and had very little trouble like that. I
can't see pulseaudio being able to work around fundamental issues that
alsa has seen pulseaudio uses alsa.

I've used it with pro and semi pro sound cards as well as all manner of
consumer chipsets and had very little issues.
>
> On the other hand, OSS (OSS4) did always work and is the easier to
> implement solution. It supports natively sound multiplexing and
> several channels.
>
> Unfortunately some applications does refuse to work with oss, even
> applications that was long OSS only (Teamspeak, commercial product)
>
> Pulsaudio was /one/ solution to mitigate that but no good solution as
> it adds many problems with sound.
>
> So I am interested in the strategy, devuan will go here.
>
I think we will support as many options as possible and let people
choose. But as with systemd, if any solution prevents being able to
support other solutions, then it's out the door.

That said, pulseaudio should be amenable with a bit of 'gentle
persuasion' from my sledge hammer :P


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