[Gpe-list] [RFC] Replacing esound-gpe with pulseaudio

[Koen Kooi]

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Rob Taylor schreef:
> Florian Boor wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Koen Kooi schrieb:
>>> Esound is showing its age nowadays (and especially the 5 year old for gpe has in svn), so
>>> could we please switch to pulseaudio? pulse is a drop-in replacement for esound, but has a
>>> lot more features. What do you think?
>> sounds like a good idea - i must admit that i do not know much about pulseaudio
>> but replacing our current esd stuff with some actively developed and maintained
>> code might be a good idea. How does the size pulseaudio compare with esound?
>> Does it use the same namespace?
>>
> 
> Another thing needs to be considered for using pulseaudio on embedded -
> it currently uses libsamplerate [1] for its resampling which uses
> floating point. We would either need a drop-in fixed point replacement
> for libsamplerate (possibly based off resample [2]), or persuade
> libsamplerate upstream to take patches to enable using fixed-point math.

set resample=trivial in /etc/pulse/daemon.conf and it will use integer (nearest-neighbour)
resampling :)

regards,

Koen
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