Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th Oct 2009 19:09 UTC, submitted by MadMAtt
Lennart Poettering, creator of open source sound server PulseAudio, was recently interviewed at this year's Linux Plumbers Conference. In this Q&A he details the latest PulseAudio developments and addresses some of PA's critics. Thanks to PulseAudio, the Linux audio experience is becoming more context-aware. For example, if a video is running in one application the system should now automatically reduce the volume of everything else and increase it when the video is finished.
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2006-02-25
Which is why professional linux audio is doomed. OSS4 just works, i can mix low latency and regular latency streams and it works perfect. ALSA+dmix can't do it and Pulseaudio becomes a hungry beast and eats most of my CPU when i try to do that. Every OS but linux does it the OSS4 way (primary and secondary buffers and in-kernel resampling), The future of audio floating point? please what a waste.. for processing inside an app maybe, but for sending an mp3 to the soundcard? YOU DONT NEED FLOATING POINT. Also you don't need floating point for resampling in real world usage.