removing esd - seems possible now?

[Lindsay Holmwood]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 22:26 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> What about making some (new?) protocol for sound-over-network -
> something that *just is there* when you connect over XDMCP? Maybe
> something hooked into ALSA just to make it more complicated - like a
> "viritual soundcard device"?

G'day,
No need for creating something new, Lennart Poettering has been working
on a replacement for ESD named Polypaudio[1].

It's designed to be a drop in replacement for ESD, and it's eventual
goal is for it to be adopted by the Gnome dudes as the default sound
server. 

It works quite well right now, but what's holding it back from being
included in Gnome are some technical issues on how the sound is
processed. 

Maybe this might be something the Fedora Project might be interested in
adopting at some later date (or even now if you're feeling game!).

Cheers,
Lindsay

[1] http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/polypaudio/
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