PulseAudio and sound apps (was: Re: Orphaning a few packages)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 10:22 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> > I re-orphaned portaudio. I see that it is patched to work with
> > pulseaudio, which, I think, must be banned from the surface of Earth.
> > I am not planning to maintain a package with such a patch.
> 
> PulseAudio is the default sound solution in Fedora, so all packages using
> sound SHOULD support it.
> 
> IMHO, we should:
> * find some solution for JACK apps to work out of the box, without
> reconfiguring PulseAudio to work on top of JACK. Maybe this involves
> running JACK on top of PulseAudio (something which currently doesn't work
> because JACK does not support non-mmap ALSA devices nor the native
> PulseAudio protocol), maybe this involves starting up JACK when needed and
> having it load the JACK modules into PulseAudio and rerouting running
> PulseAudio streams to JACK at runtime (which can be done without
> interrupting the PulseAudio streams - the problem with that solution is
> that it breaks support for multiple output devices, which work just fine
> when using PulseAudio directly), maybe something else, but in any case a
> solution is needed to make things just work.

There is work happening between PulseAudio and Jack to allow automatic
peaceful coexistence. 
See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/device-reservation.html