[pulseaudio-discuss] Introduction

[Vasili Sviridov]

The site contains links to the latest version. It's a tarball, so 
provided you satisfy all dependencies, ./configure && make && make 
install should get you going :)

About advantages - that topic was extensively covered, there's a nice 
video of (i believe) Lennart himself explaining the reasons and ideas 
behind PA, just look around, maybe through Wikipedia entry on PA. That 
also includes topics of proxying, merging soundcards together into 
virtual multi-channel soundcards, and much more...

In general PA is the "right thing", that just needs bit more polishing 
and distro vendors involvement :)

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Vasili Sviridov wrote:
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>> I'm using latest ubuntu, with the pulseaudio being configured manually. 
>> So far I have no issues with it whatsoever, and I've even managed to 
>> send sound via network to my windows machine :)
>>
>> What I intended to tell you with my first response, was that you should 
>> ask more concrete questions in the mailing list, i.e. when something 
>> actually breaks... Because otherwise it's pretty much impossible to 
>> predict what *might* go wrong with your particular instance of 
>> linux/fedora/hardware/pulseaudio/some_random_factors...
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>     OK. Well when we upgraded from Fedora 7 to 8 I noticed an odd 
> distortion in the audio I received from movies and short things on the 
> VLC media player. I mentioned the problem as a Fedora problem on that 
> list and was told to delete the pulseaudio rpm(s). I did so and the 
> audio cleared up.
>
>     After a few months of updates the audio got bad again. I looked and 
> many updates were for pulseaudio. Another person showed how you could 
> delete all the pulseaudio updates and many people myself included, did so.
>
>     I decided to find out why we want pulseaudio and how can we get it 
> to work on Fedora 8 Linux. I joined this list.
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>     Your right I can't ask a good question because I am not using it. If 
> you know, were can I d/l a tar ball or rpm of the latest version, and 
> what is the latest version? I may find it on the web page and will look. 
> Then install it if possible and test it and report here how it works.
>
> The purpose of a sound server proxy is unclear to me now.
>
>
> Karl
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>> V.
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>> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>> Hi Vasili, I did read some of the web page and clicked on Fedora which 
>>> is the version of Linux I use. I was surprised to see it is a page of 
>>> the Fedora Bugzilla which I know about. I read that page and came away 
>>> worried that pulseaudio is not good for Fedora.
>>>
>>> What kind of operating system do use? Does pulseaudio work good on it?
>>>
>>> Karl
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>>> Vasili Sviridov wrote:
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>>>> Hello Karl,
>>>>
>>>> How about starting with reading the web site? (http://pulseaudio.org/) 
>>>> it contains all the basic info about PulseAudio, it's purpose and 
>>>> applications.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> V.
>>>>
>>>> P.S. It's quite windy here in Vancouver, BC as well...
>>>>
>>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>>     Hi My name is Karl Larsen and I live in Las Cruces, NM USA where the 
>>>>> wind is blowing hard right now. I use Linux and now am on Fedora 8. So 
>>>>> hope to learn more about what pulse-audio should do.
>>>>>
>>>>> Karl
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