voice conferencing with windows users

[Karl Larsen]

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> Christopher Lemire wrote:
>   
>> Why is it possible to have sound in Skype and other applications 
>> simultaneously in Windows then? Ubuntu shouldn't be limited.
>>     
> I think it has to do with the audio server in Linux.  I don't know that 
> much about the PulseAudio audio server in Ubuntu.  From what I 
> understand its a rather new project.  I do believe in 7.10 which used 
> ALSA, I believe, you did have audio support for multiple programs.
>
> What I'd like to know is why does Ubuntu use a audio server which isn't 
> that widely supported yet?
>
>   
    Pulse Audio is supposed to GIVE you the ability to have more than 
one audio  function running at the same time. I have not seen it do 
this. But it has not ruined my use of the sound card for DSP processing. 
This was a pleasant surprise.

     In my opinion Pulse Audio works good in Ubuntu Hardy. It was 
terrible when introduced in Fedora 8.

Karl


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