Talk:PulseAudio
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[edit] Polypaudio -> PulseAudio
Polypaudio has been renamed to Pulse Audio. riffic 21:03, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
Was it called Polypaudio or PolypAudio? I've seen it spelled both ways. :-/ Sam 19:04, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Criticism?
Shouldn't this contain a criticism section? The central problem that arts and esd were designed to overcome, was the limitations of poor hardware support in linux & other free systems. These limitations made it impossible for multiple processes to have an open handle on the sound device. With the inclusion of ALSA in the kernel for Linux, this became a non issue, however the kde and gnome camps were reluctant to give up any ground, and their daemons, now nothing more than wasteful sound proxies, lived on: solutions for a problem that no longer existed. Considering PulseAudio was designed as a replacement for esd/arts, it falls in to the same category: a solution for a non-existent problem. 216.143.84.231 (talk) 16:49, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
- PulseAudio does a lot more than allow multiple processes access to the sound stream - it also allows you to fine-tune the audio output of all your processes, including varying left and right channels individually. Also, the ability to set up dmix (the mixer for multiple channels in ALSA) is not exactly easy, whereas PulseAudio provides this from the offset. Yes, a lot of "older" (and some recent programs) have been broken by PulseAudio, but as far as I am aware, the developers are working to fix these issues (and seem to mainly relate to programs using broken or older sound systems). ~~ [Jam][talk] 19:58, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
- Further you'd need reliable sources, what you have written reads very much like WP:OR. --Falcorian (talk) 04:35, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Lennart Poettering
Main author of this GREAT audio server isn't even mentioned in the article?! I think he more than deserve credits!--Popski (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 09:55, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] PulseAudio on by default in Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04.
The latest Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 distro has PulseAudio on by default (see [1], replacing the ESD and slotting in between a number of apps. It all seems quite well integrated *except* that there are problems with clicks and pops on audio with high CPU. I get this on one of my machines (a trash/dumpster found machine that runs a PIII 433 Mhz processor and 384 Meg of memory). I think it's fixed in kernel 2.6.24-17-generic (which isn't yet out for me). The point being that lots of people use Ubuntu so this'll probably attract more traffic to this article. Ttiotsw (talk) 23:29, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] CPU usage
On a low-end machine, such as a 600 MHz C3, the pulseaudio server can use 30% of the CPU. This converts a silent media-server from one which can (just) play DVDs into one which can't. Most pulseaudio-compliant applications such as mplayer will happily fall back to using ALSA natively if p.a. is uninstalled. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.171.29 (talk) 01:48, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Sound in Unix -> PulseAudio??
Why does Sound in Unix redirect to here? --antilivedT | C | G 09:21, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
- It appears the article - which was created in March this year - originally redirected to the Open Sound System, which has now been more or less deprecated by PulseAudio. I suspect the redirect should really be deleted, because it implies that PulseAudio is the only sound system available to *nix operating systems. ~~ [Jam][talk] 10:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
