[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #262: Pulseaudio should switch sample rates when possible

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#262: Pulseaudio should switch sample rates when possible
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  Reporter:  Florob   |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  closed 
  Priority:  normal   |   Milestone:         
 Component:  daemon   |    Severity:  normal 
Resolution:  wontfix  |    Keywords:         
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Changes (by lennart):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix

Comment:

 Sorry, this won't work: what happens if you have more than two streams
 connected with different sampling rates? Reopen the device which causes
 discontinuities?

 Modern sound cards don't support changeable sampling rates anymore.
 Digital resampling is how things should be done. That's how Vista does it
 and MacOS too.

 If you feel that PA takes too much CPU time for resampling: the reason for
 this is that in the traditional model the client app did the resampling,
 and thus the amount of CPU necessary for the resampling wasn't clearly
 visible in top. Since PA does this now it suddenly becomes visible,
 however the work was just moved to another process.

 Also, the linear resamplers mplayer, gst and even alsa used and uses are
 really really crappy. They take little CPU but sound like shit. In PA we
 have a proper resampler which sounds good but has the side effect of
 taking up more CPU time.

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