how is pulseaudio supposed to work?

Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net
Tue Dec 18 20:51:32 UTC 2007


Le mardi 18 décembre 2007 à 21:38 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot a écrit :
> Le mardi 18 décembre 2007 à 15:12 -0500, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> > On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:58:30 +0100
> > Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > It's very unclear to me how this kind if setup is supposed to be
> > > handled in a PA world.
> > 
> > How is it supposed to be handled in a non PA world?
> 
> You assign specific alsa devices to specific apps

And the apps arbiter resource access just like cups arbiters
simultaneous access to a localy attached printer from local, remote and
background users.

Because audio cabling is static and audio devices are at the same stage
today as non-networked printers were two decade ago. There are systems
connected to audio devices by virtue of being near the audio devices,
and there is no 1:1 relashionship between the user sitting on the local
system in the current dekstop session and the user making use of audio
devices.

It's perfectly legitimate to have a desktop system sitting in the living
room that simultaneously plays a DVD for one user on the TV/projector
output, records analog video for another through PVR card, while a third
is connected in dekstop session and checks his mails or does some quick
browsing.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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