Re: Comparing and testing sound daemons.

From: Lee Braiden (jel_at_tundra.ath.cx)
Date: 02/27/05

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    On Sunday 27 February 2005 02:10, A. Alphan Bayazit wrote:
    > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:04 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
    > > I'm currently using esound, and I believe that artsd, jackd and alsa
    > > are
    > > alternatives to this -- am I right?
    > The problem is, however, not every application works with each daemon.
    > KDE applications mostly use arts, while Gnome guys use esd.
    > Some applications such as mplayer, gstreamer, xmms etc, can use almost
    > anything.

    One thing to bear in mind is that apps which don't support a particular sound
    daemon can sometimes be made to work with them anyway, using wrappers. arts
    and esd both have wrappers (artswrapper and esddsp, if i recall correctly)
    which can be used to make an OSS program compatible. 

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Lee.
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