esd prevents sound working in some apps/games...

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 9/30/06, Gabriel M Dragffy <dragffy at yandex.ru> wrote:
> So what's the real point of ESD? What does it do? Even if I kill it's
> process I can still get sound from my applications... so why run it?

AFAIK, ESD was used a long time ago when the sound drivers didn't
support native sound mixing. I think now it seems pretty useless to
me. aRTS, for example, is similar to ESD but has several plug-ins to
implement fancy effects, like echo, filters, etc.