From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Dec 18 2:48:41 2000 From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 18 02:48:39 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from midget.dons.net.au (daniel.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.137.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A9937B402 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 02:48:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (guppy.dons.net.au [203.31.81.9]) by midget.dons.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA84007; Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:18:26 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20001218102533.B87785@server.intra.blender.nl> Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:18:25 +1030 (CST) Sender: darius@cain.gsoft.com.au From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Hans Lambermont Subject: Re: Multiple invocations of /dev/snd ? Cc: Frank van Beek Cc: Frank van Beek , Janco Verduin , multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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