Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:18:25 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Hans Lambermont <hans@blender.nl> Cc: Frank van Beek <frank@server.intra.blender.nl>, Janco Verduin <janco@server.intra.blender.nl>, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple invocations of /dev/snd ? Message-ID: <XFMail.001218211825.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20001218102533.B87785@server.intra.blender.nl>
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On 18-Dec-00 Hans Lambermont wrote: > > The only problem with esd is the ludicrous amount of buffering it does > > :-/ Those dinky visualisations look very odd when they're lagged by ~1 > > second :) > Aiee, that makes it unuseable for games too. There should be a control Yep.. > to limit the buffering. Perhaps there already is (I don't know the esd > api). Btw, are there esd alternatives ? And if so, is one clearly > becoming the de-facto standard, or are they even ? Well the 'best' alternative would be to have the kernel mix the audio for you :) I think the KDE folks have a similar daemon but I'm not sure. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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