2009/3/8 Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@xxxxxxx>: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:23:33 +0100 > Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Try playing sound from 2 or more apps at once on hardware with no hardware >> mixing (or with hardware mixing not supported by the ALSA driver), it just >> won't work without PulseAudio (or dmix, which has its own share of >> compatibility problems). > Then try making sense out of 2 or more apps playing at once and > wonder why anyone cares if it works or not. Case 1) I normally play really really loud Metal or watch American crime dramas to drown out the chatterboxes in my office. I want to hear the pings of a new IM coming in, because it usually means something significant server-wise. Case 2) I want to hear my VOIP phone ringing over the perfect noise of Rammstein. and that's just me... there must be thousands of other legitimate use cases! -- Sam -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
