SDL with PulseAudio support

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:20:31PM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> OS: Ubuntu 9.10 x64.
> 
> Ubuntu 9.10 comes with libsdl1.2debian-alsa installed by default, and
> not libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio nor libsdl1.2debian-all.
> 
> This has an effect on some games. Why Ubuntu comes with
> libsdl1.2debian-alsa while it uses PulseAudio by default?

I don't know the answer to that question.  In theory, it should not
matter: in Ubuntu, ALSA is configured to play through PulseAudio by
default.  Lennart Pottering, the author of PulseAudio, recommended that
apps use the ALSA API (actually, a safe subset of it) by default:
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/guide-to-sound-apis.html

This does cause issues for some games (e.g. the Allegro library uses
16-bit unsigned samples; the PulseAudio ALSA shim doesn't support
those).

Do you have any particular examples where libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio
works better than libsdl1.2debian-alsa?

Marius Gedminas
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