[pulseaudio-discuss] Google ChromeOS reinventing the wheel, ignoring PulseAudio

[Taylor Hutt]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Mark Brown <
broonie at opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:02:49AM +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> > 'Twas brillig, and Taylor Hutt at 27/09/11 21:56 did gyre and gimble:
> > > Hello folks,
>
>
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>
> > > Since we have decided not to use Pulse, prior to my time, it seemed
> > > prudent to continue with that decision.
>
> > I'll be blunt. This is a mistake. Revisit it. Do your own evaluation. We
>

That's not bad advice, but it's not always prudent.

In this case, I am part of a team working to make a shipping product, and
there are time constraints which
do not afford the time necessary to do that, _and_ to make forward progress
to get the sound system working
across a constantly increasing variety of hardware.

The door has not categorically closed on Pulse for all time, but it has
closed for the time being.
We've got a lot of work to get Chromium and Chromium OS to a point where
ship with the desired features, and
I don't presently have the time to re-investigate Pulse across our set of
hardware.


> > > As far as I understand it,
> > > Pulse also doesn't cope well with dynamic devices -- it's more suited
> to
> > > a desktop system than to a system which will have devices dynamically
> > > inserted & removed.
>
> > This is a grave misunderstanding. PA copes *very* well with dynamic
> > devices. It's one of the key parts of what we do. Policy modules allow
>
> things to happen automatically (for example when I have a voip stream
>
> and I enable my bluetooth headset, a policy module kicks in and knows
> > that I want voip on bluetooth. This is all customisable, but at the end
> > of the day, this is very much a key part of the platform.
>
>
Can you explain how Pulse copes with devices that have not been seen before
and
for which no configuration has been written?

Does Pulse work with HDMI audio and video?


> > This is good news as it means you still have time to make the right
> > decision. I strongly suggest you take some time to read up a bit more
> > about PA and chat to us about it.
>
>
Point me to the definitive documentation, please.

thutt
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