[pulseaudio-discuss] system-wide daemon

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 09.02.10 18:41, Tanu Kaskinen (tanuk at iki.fi) wrote:

> ti, 2010-02-09 kello 11:17 -0500, Bill Cox kirjoitti:
> > The corking stuff in PA is very cool.  I don't think anyone objects to
> > it.  But couldn't we quell all the "PA stinks!" posts by just allowing
> > some processes/groups/users to have constant access to audio?
> 
> That's easier said than done. Only one process can have direct access to
> the sound card at a time. Each user has his own pulseaudio instance
> running. How do you implement constant access in such scenario? I fear
> it would require a major redesign effort in pulseaudio. I haven't seen
> any concrete design proposals enabling simultaneous access for multiple
> users while at the same time retaining all the desirable properties that
> the current system has.

Also, if this is all just about ways so that different users can pass
audio to each other, there are simpler ways to achieve that.

Lennart

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