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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Multichannel mixing in userspace is fine, however you will notice that in windows it's perfectly possible to use low latency audio (ASIO) while your system still has regular latency audio. This is because the kernel DOES MIXING. That scenario is not possible nowadays with pulseaudio.