Re: PulseAudio & ALSA

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:

>> Wouldn’t that be a better solution than to add the pulseaudio package to
>> the inputs wherever possible?
>
> Dunno.  It seems to me that applications that are PA-aware can have
> better integration, like have their name shown in pavucontrol and
> similar interfaces, which is quite useful.

I take your word for it.  I haven’t noticed.

> There are also technical complications: alsa-lib must be able to find
> its PulseAudio plug-in (currently we don’t build it since alsa-lib would
> depend on PulseAudio), and it must be one that can actually be dlopened
> by every process out there (linked against the same libc, etc.)

Hmm, that does sound hairy.

~~ Ricardo