On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 08:01 -0400, Mike Williams wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 20:32 -0700, john wendel wrote: > >> Uh, I don't use pulseaudio at all, just alsa, and I can run audacious, > >> vlc and mplayer simultaneously and hear all of them. > >> Of course, I can't set the volume of each individually, but why would > >> I want to do this in the first place. > > > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 2:42 AM, Tim<ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Rather obvious, really... because when one of them is too loud compared > > to the others... > > Well, I could be wrong, but I thought what John meant was why would he > want to listen to three different things at once. ---- it's not that anyone wants to listen to those 3 items at the same time but rather it is very useful to have audio control that permits that because if you are watching a movie, and you get a telephone call or an e-mail or a system event wants to sound an alarm, it too should be heard and at a relative volume. That is one of the functions of pulseaudio Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines