PulseAudio

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

On 2/27/07, David Zeuthen <davidz at redhat.com> wrote:

> Every single watt counts. Ever wondered why you get less battery
> run-time when running Linux?

If we are talking about a watt.  Or a milliwatt.  What if we're
talking about 100uWatt?  Is it worth it then?  Again, those USB sound
devices are on the touchy side and a notebook is even more likely to
be using one...

> All this talk about a system-wide PulseAudio sounds interesting but from
> what I've seen in the Fedora repositories this is a bit from what we've
> got today. In particular I'm concerned about labeling streams etc. from
> different users and ensuring they can't interfere with each other. It
> would be really good with a mail going into technical details about
> this. Thanks.

Well, it would be on the Wiki if I actually had any edit permissions,
which I don't...

Monty