[arch-general] PulseAudio

[Xavier Chantry]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If you want to read up on the different sound components, just do a
> google search. There's tons of articles out there, some very good,
> mostly a bit crap. Lennart Pottering (dev for Pulse) has a
> particularly good one I recall. Most on Arch wouldn't like his
> conclusions though.
>

I collected some article/blogs about pulseaudio, in case anyone is interested.

1) PA detractor (both articles have been slashdotted)
http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2007/05/sorry-state-of-sound-in-linux.html
http://insanecoding.blogspot.com/2009/06/state-of-sound-in-linux-not-so-sorry.html

2) PA defenders
interview of Lennart Poettering (PA dev at redhat)
http://jaboutboul.blogspot.com/2009/05/sound-of-fedora-11.html
his blog : http://0pointer.de/blog/projects
Many info about PA there, just one example :
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html

blog of colin guthr (another PA dev) : http://colin.guthr.ie/tag/pulseaudio/
Also many interesting articles, for example :
http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-anti-fud-calm-certainty-and-confidence/
(answer to 1))
http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-1-alsa/
http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/sound-on-linux-is-confusing-defuzzing-part-2-pulseaudio/

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If you are just interested about getting PA working, and not about the
how and why, you should probably just read the following wiki, instead
of all the links above :
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio
http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/PerfectSetup