ARTSD

[Sean Bruno]

On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 10:28 -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-05-01 at 05:26 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK ALSA is Linux specific whereas gnome and kde are cross-platform. So
> > the important thing isn't to have alsa do network audio.  It's to have a
> > cross platform API that addresses the present shortcomings (Alan posts
> > about those nearly every time this comes up.)  Then it can be implemented on
> > Linux and other platforms in whatever form makes sense.
> 
> Well, the solution that GNOME seems to have converged on is to use
> Gstreamer and use whatever default output method Gstreamer is set up
> for. On many desktop systems, using the Gstreamer alsasink output plugin
> would be the best; in other cases you can either use e.g. esd or some
> other sound server which can provide network transparency. At least some
> KDE programs use Gstreamer as well, and apparently there is talk of
> using Gstreamer pretty much as the default audio solution for KDE 4. So
> it seems that Gstreamer can fulfill the role of being _the_ audio API
> that desktop apps use.
> 
> /Per
> 
> -- 
> Per Bjornsson <perbj at stanford.edu>
> Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University
> 
FYI, it looks like the issue with artsd going mental has departed.
Thanks to whomever looked into it and repaired the problem!

Sean