Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Jun 2006 21:16 UTC, submitted by Mitarai
Polypaudio is a relatively new cross-platform networked sound server project. The first release came out in July, 2004, the software has been released under the LGPL. "Polypaudio is a networked sound server for Linux and other Unix like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESOUND)." The main function of a sound server is to allow multiple audio applications to simultaneously share the same sound card, the networking capabilities extend this ability across machines.
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2006-03-20
I'm not a linux audio expert, but I know enough about the frameworks to have a fair guess.
I'd expect that Polypaudio - in GStreamer, at least - would replace an AlsaSink or OssSink as the output device, and any well designed program (ie: enumerates output devices dynamically, rather than hardcoding an AlsaSink as the output) would simply allow the user to change the output device in it's settings dialog.
Of course, Polypaudio itself would sit in the stack between GStreamer and Alsa/OSS/Whatever.