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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by esaym on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:36PM (#15315089)
And what happened when two processes wrote to that file? And what if they where each in a different sample rate? ....
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Re:PulseAudio under the hood by gmueckl on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:12PM (#15315843)
Well, sound mixing and resampling are a thing. Other operating systems do that where it belongs: in the kernel. OSS gets it right, for example.
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