PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat

Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor... by vetinari on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @03:53PM (#31992886)

Audio in Linux before PA certainly wasn't working fine. Turning off your mp3 player and restarting your browser, because you want to play youtube via flash plugin? Sorry, but that's not fine.

I had my share of hardware, and PA had problem with only one piece (a nettop with Nvidia Ion2, audio via hdmi). It turned out that the hardware couldn't really play 44,1 kHz audio, it's clock was too unreliable and resulted in drop outs. PA couldn't fix the hardware, but could resample everything to 48 kHz on CPU, and with that there was no playback problem.

So yes, it exposed problems, and it forced to fix them. We are all better off today for that.

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Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor... by TylerE on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:05PM (#31993020)

By far the best sound experience I've ever had on *nix was FreeBSD's fork of OSS. Dead simple API.. the /dev/dsp device had software multiplexing so multiple apps was no problem.

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Re:PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Repor... by sam_lowry_ on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:20PM (#31993189)

Alsa has it via dmix although not as the defaut. Probably because Lennaert.

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