Re: ESD, aRts, ALSA, OSS, and GStreamer

"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:57:51 -0700

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Hi,

> Sound device sharing, and being a public API for portable audio file
handling (together
> with libaudiofile).

By portable audio file handling what exactly do you mean? Would I be correct
if I said it is to decode the various audio file formats in an operating
system independent manner?

> A lot of people don't need it since they want to use alsa/dmix instead of
esd.

Why? How is ALSA superior to ESD, or for that matter aRts? Are ESD and aRts
abstraction layers built on top of ALSA?

Thanks a lot,
Debarshi

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