PulseAudio is a networked sound server.

Features
- Module autoloading
- Support for more than one sink/source
- Good low latency behaviour
- Very accurate latency measurement for playback and recording.
- Client side latency interpolation
- Embedabble into other software (the core is available as C library)
- Completely asynchronous C API, complemented by two synchronous variants for simple use in synchronous applications
- Simple command line interface for reconfiguring the daemon while running
- Flexible, implicit sample type conversion and resampling
- "Zero-Copy" architecture
- May be used to combine multiple sound cards to one (with sample rate adjustment)
- Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback streams

Journal Entries

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Uhm, okay pulseaudio test5 does not start here, will look into it another time. Flameeyes — 4 months ago

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pulseaudio packages in gentoo has been updated, enjoy! Flameeyes — 9 months ago

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Fixing pulseaudio build and buildsystem Flameeyes — 11 months ago

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pulseaudio, like libcanberra, will receive a libtool-2.2 branch local, together with some generic autotools fixes and improvements Flameeyes — 11 months ago

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Fixed up some positions for the pulseaudio project. They moved from subversion to git and the aliases weren't mapped properly. jason — about 1 year ago

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