Phonon Sample Cache

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Mon Aug 29 09:04:07 BST 2011


2011/8/29 Michael Pyne <mpyne at kde.org>:
> On Saturday, August 27, 2011 13:56:03 Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> libcanberra does pulse, alsa, gstreamer and OSS. The plan would be to
>> use pulse by default on most linux systems and write an additional
>> phonon backend for canberra for those users who do not want to use pulse
>> (which is an reducing minority but an annoying vocal one, so needs to be
>> supported). If written, this phonon backend would be committed upstream.
>
> I don't use PulseAudio and I'm on Linux. I do so for the same reason that I
> used aKode on KDE 3.5 instead of aRts. It's funny that it's not considered
> completely insane for Linux users to use lightweight programs in other
> instances where an entire order-of-magnitude more features is not desired
> (e.g. lighttpd vs. httpd, the various 'light' window managers, etc.). What is
> it exactly about not using PA when I don't need positional audio or network
> sound streaming over a home network that I don't have that makes *me* the
> stick in the mud?
>
> I'd like to think I'd been a completely silent minority... it's looking as if
> I'll need to change that soon.

Why use pulseaudio? Check out the subject line of this thread...

Anyways this is a pretty straightforward case where treating the "no
pulseaudio" as an error-case rather then a normal use-case makes loads
of stuff much easier. Like currently we have our own hardware handling
code in parallel with pulseaudio and its just not really necessary
anymore.

Ian



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