Re: ANNOUNCE: Polypaudio 0.5

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

Hi Lennart,
I have to say the feature list of Polypaudio is looking very nice. I
will surely try and install it this weekend to see how it works. Hope
you release the GStreamer plugin by then :)

Christian

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 01:02, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I released the Polypaudio Sound Server 0.5 a few minutes ago. Changes
> include:
> 
> - extensive API improvements
> - new module module-combine for combining multiple sound cards into one
> - gcc 2.95 compatibility
> - configuration files
> - "lazy" samples
> - support for source and network latency measurements (in addition to sink latency measurements)
> - add module-pipe-source
> - many other fixes and improvements.
> 
> This all makes it an even better replacement for ESOUND in Gnome 2.10. ;-)
> 
> gstreamer and mplayer drivers work more or less, but aren't released
> yet. Porting polypaudio to FreeBSD and a driver for PortAudio are next
> on my TODO-list.
> 
> BTW: This is the first release where polypaudio exceeds esound in all
> respects. You can even replace the esd binary with a polypaudio
> wrapper script and run gnome that way and everything works as
> expected.
> 
> Lennart