[pulseaudio-discuss] Advantages to GST-Pulse

Rémi Cardona remi at gentoo.org
Wed Aug 1 00:33:38 PDT 2007


Justin Tulloss wrote:
> Are there any advantages to using gst-pulse over just having gstreamer
> use alsasink? As long as alsa is configured with the appropriate plugin,
> the result should be the same, right?

Business 101 : remove the middle man :)

Less code that runs, better latency, lower number of possible points of
failure, fewer round trips, ...

But yes, in theory they should yield the same results.

Rémi



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