[arch-general] PulseAudio in [testing]

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Nov 28, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Yaro Kasear <yaro at marupa.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-11-29 at 01:15 +0100, fons at kokkinizita.net wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 06:44:10PM -0500, Simon Gomizelj wrote:
>>
>>> Pulseaudio has been buggy because in many cases they have been the
>>> very
>>> first people to ever make use of some of the more esoteric parts
>>> of alsa.
>>> Those parts also lacked proper documentation and many drivers
>>> didn't even
>>> bother with a proper implementation.
>>
>> True. And what PA probably needs most and ALSA does not provide
>> is a way to provide *lots* of buffering (more than a second, in
>> cases where latency does not matter), while at the same time
>> allowing an app to 'review' or 'rewind' this buffering in order
>> to ensure responsiveness to user commands (such as stop/play for
>> a player).
>>
>> Ciao,
>>
>
> I'm sorry, but did no one notice that I haven't said anything more and
> have, in fact, dropped this discussion? Who are you arguing with?

Unfortunately it usually takes 10-100x informed responses to negate
each FUD riddled one.

I would just continue to stand by and absorb the yummy brownies of
information.

C Anthony [mobile]