The Great Pulseaudio Mixer Debate: a modest (productive) proposal

[Ben Boeckel]

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Bill Crawford wrote:

> On Saturday 25 April 2009 17:34:25 Rémy Maucherat 
wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Bill Crawford
>>
>> <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Saturday 25 April 2009 03:39:43 Rémy Maucherat 
wrote:
>> >> Reading the IRC log, the Fesco members technical 
arguments sound
>> >> limited, and do focus on legacy use cases. That's 
really 10 years old
>> >> stuff (CD line in - PC speaker was mentioned too 
- - unused for me in
>> >> that timeframe ...), so if this does not 
represent less than 5% of
>> >> users, I wonder what will.
>> >
>> > This is one of the most annoying attitudes 
throughout this debate. I
>> > still use a CD line-in on my soundcard. It might 
be "10 years old"
>> > stuff ... my sound card is 7 years old. But it 
*still works* ... why
>> > should I not use it?
>>
>> - one less cable
>> - much lower quality
>> - newer readers do not have that output anymore
> 
> ... doesn't skip if the IDE interface gets some heavy 
traffic, or my CPU
> is briefly very overloaded?
> 
I've had X lock up or temporarily freeze and kaffeine 
(playing through PA via xine) still plays. The only way 
I've been able to get it to skip is to force basically 
everything into swap with programs that take up 3+GB of 
RAM (making markov chains from big.txt takes...quite a 
bit in duck-typed languages). Maybe it's the dual core 
3.0GHz, but I've found it hard to skip apps using PA. 
PA is taking 0% CPU and kaffeine jumps to 1% playing 
flac files. Also, PA hasn't even jumped towards the top 
of usage at all in the past few minutes.

- --Ben
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