[gst-devel] fluendo plugins

[Maciej Katafiasz]

Dnia 20-04-2005, śro o godzinie 14:27 -0500, Matthew Lenz napisał:
> On an unrelated note a question about Esound.  Is it planned that Esound 
> will be replaced entirely by gstreamer + alsa in future versions of 
> gnome?  Is gstreamer ABLE to replace Esounds functionality?

Not really. GStreamer serves in-process functionality, while sound
server is inter-process. So gst still needs sound server to output to if
you want to have software mixing (special case of sound-server like
function is alsa's dmix plugin). However, benefit of using gst is that
you can switch to sound server making precisely 0 changes to code of
application, just changing config. Also, sound server itself could very
well use GStreamer for its media processing.

Cheers,
Maciej

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Maciej Katafiasz <ml at mathrick.org>