[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio, PortAudio or what to use as application developer?

[Luke Yelavich]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 11:34:23PM EST, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Jonas Finnemann Jensen at 27/01/09 11:18 did gyre and 
> gimble:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I don't know if this is the right list to post this question, if not I'm 
> > very sorry and feel free to ignore me :)
> > (I think maybe this should have gone to PortAudio list, but it's down 
> > for the moment).
> > 
> > I'm doing a free platform independent application in C# using mono... 
> > Now I wish to do audio playback, so far I've found some C# bindings for 
> > PortAudio, and as far as I can see it should be easy to include and 
> > distribute PortAudio in a windows release...
> > 
> > However, I'm running Ubuntu 8.10, and when playing music with PortAudio 
> > other applications can't play anything... I think this is because 
> > PortAudio uses ALSA directly...
> 
> This shouldn't be a problem as alsa can be directed to pulseaudio.
> 
> I'm going to hazard a guess and say that Ubuntu probably hasn't included 
> Kevin Kofler's patches in their portaudio package that makes it play 
> nice with the alsa->pulse plugin? You should look in the Fedora or 
> Mandriva portaudio packages for this patch. I'm not sure if it's gone 
> upstream.

This patch is included as of jaunty 9.04.

Luke
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