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Re: anyone experience with pulseaudio on here?
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Re: anyone experience with pulseaudio on here?

  • Subject: Re: anyone experience with pulseaudio on here?
  • From: Paul Davis <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:39:19 -0500


On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:36 PM, René J.V. <email@hidden> wrote:
On Tuesday February 03 2015 10:03:19 Paul Davis wrote:

> CoreAudio and PulseAudio are really two different worlds. You're very
> unlikely to find much overlap. What are you doing that seeks to combine
> them? PulseAudio really offers nothing in the context of OS X and CoreAudio.

PulseAudio has a CoreAudio backend, and as such can play (theoretically) the role on OS X that it also plays on Linux, to the same applications it serves on Linux, those which don't support CoreAudio themselves.

The role PA plays on Linux is played by CoreAudio on OS X. There's very little point in using PA on top of CoreAudio.

In fact, PA's original developer specifically did not want ANY applications (or even libraries) to use the PA API directly. Sadly, many developers have ignored this (Skype being one of the most notable examples).

You'd be much better off making Phonon or even GStreamer work on CoreAudio, the latter actually offering functionality that isn't already present in CoreAudio.
 
I've worked in both worlds for over a decade, and I can't see any reason to use PA on OS X.

--p


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