PulseAudio seems a lot more simple than ALSA but I am not a big fan of PulseAudio tbh
very clean API doe 😳
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@alyx Might look at that since I use Pipewire, but I am more worried about now rather than the far future. where Pipewire Pulse is deprecated or something :/
@alyx also not the biggest fan of the idea of it doing audio and video, seems like putting all you eggs in one basket. but that's just my take :/
@alyx but still better than pulses 10000000 layers of abstraction
SDL -> pulse -> ALSA -> kernel syscall -> hardware
Meanwhile pipewire I think at least
SDL -> pipewire -> syscall -> hardware
SDL -> pulse -> ALSA -> kernel syscall -> hardware
Meanwhile pipewire I think at least
SDL -> pipewire -> syscall -> hardware
@nonetrix
Makes sense since I hear it actually manages to be low latency.
@alyx in English: pulseaudio is literally just a wrapper on top of ALSA and ALSA was meant to be a wrapper around just asking the kernel nicely to play audio
@alyx then some idiots had the idea to make a wrapper around pulseaudio
@nonetrix
Not aware of a wrapper around pulseaudio.
@alyx SDL literally any cross platform audio library
