Re: anyone experience with pulseaudio on here?
Re: anyone experience with pulseaudio on here?
- Subject: Re: anyone experience with pulseaudio on here?
- From: René J.V. Bertin <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 18:28:19 +0100
On Wednesday February 04 2015 09:40:27 Paul Davis wrote:
> I probably shouldn't guess this, but I'd imagine that the overwhelming
> majority of all Linux-y applications that have ever interacted with
> PulseAudio have done so using the ALSA API, not the PA API.
> All those
> Phonon-using apps on KDE? They are not using the PA API, but GStreamer
> which in turn uses the ALSA API, and just gets redirected through
> PulseAudio (or JACK or ....). Or they are using ALSA directly.
Or they are using the VLC backend ... whatever VLC uses afterwards.
> Getting PulseAudio working on OS X won't address or help in the use of
> those applications.
Either I missed or misunderstood something, or you forgot to take something into account: ALSA doesn't exist on OS X. So all those applications that rely on the ALSA API should be helped by something on OS X that puts the ALSA API in front of CoreAudio.
> Do you have a specific list of apps that you know actually use the
> PulseAudio API, rather than (as (used to be) recommended) the ALSA API via
> some layer of "middleware" or directly?
No, I don't. I hope I didn't give the impression, but it was never my intention to claim that I was looking to cater to applications that do use the PA API.
Really, for all I knew PA was an alternative to ALSA on Linux, one that also happens to support OS X to some extent, while ALSA clearly does not. (At least it couldn't without a name change :)).
> That doesn't have much to do with PulseAudio :)
No, but it does have something to do with providing an API and runtime interface on OS X like what's available on Linux. Phonon with an appropriate backend would also do the trick, but only for Qt-based applications AFAIK.
R.
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