Saturday sam update2

[Didier Spaier]

Hello Janina,

Well, I thought that "source" and "sink" rather were chosen by
analogy with a water distribution system.

About pipewire (thanks for the info), a short look at the wiki
makes me think that it is trying to find a niche "market" between
JACK and PulseAudio. Anyway it will take some time before I can
possibly consider shipping it in Slint <smile>

Oh, and I have no issue with PulseAudio at all.
So, no bye bye PulseAudio here.

Granted it can have more latency than JACK, but is not targeted
at audiophiles.

BTW, the article I linked to clearly explains how to make
JACK and PulseAudio coexist.

Best,

Didier


On 13/04/2019 22:37, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Indeed. Pulseaudio's use of the term "sink" is sadly ironic. To a
> reasonably educated English speaker it' squite clearly the confusion of
> someone who's not so well versed in English. The term they wanted is
> "sync," as in "syncronization.," not "sink" as in the kitchen sink.
> 
> But, it's now possibly the case that pulseaudio itself is about to be
> overtaken by a newer and more comprehensive specification, pipewire:
> 
> https://pipewire.org
> 
> 
> Bye, bye, pulseaudio.
> 
> hth
> 
> Janina
> 
> Didier Spaier writes:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 13/04/2019 20:55, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>>> Once pulseaudio got introduced the whole sound system due to the strange
>>> language used with pulseaudio got lots more complex.
>>
>> Yes the language used by PulseAudio is not obvious (at least for someone
>> whose native language is French). As an example I had hard time
>> understanding what a "sink" means. But to be honest the vocabulary used
>> by ALSA was not easy to grasp for me either. And unfortunately differs.
>>
>> As an aside, for people seriously wanting to know PulseAudio I highly
>> recommend reading "PulseAudio under the hood" from Victor Gaydov:
>> https://gavv.github.io/articles/pulseaudio-under-the-hood/
>> It covers pretty much every topic you can think of, answers a lot of
>> questions you may have and issues you could come across. Here is the
>> table of contents:
>>
>> Preface
>> About PulseAudio
>> High-level components
>> Key abstractions
>> D-Bus API
>> C API
>> Protocols and networking
>> Device drivers
>> Sound processing
>> Sample cache
>> Stream management
>> Time management
>> Power saving
>> Automatic setup and routing
>> Desktop integrations
>> Compatibility layers
>> Server internals
>> Module list
>> GUI tools
>> Command line tools
>> Configuration
>> Portability
>> Example setups
>> Example clients and modules
>> Critique
>>
>> Dosed anyone knows a similar document about ALSA?
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Didier
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