Pulseaudio : lots of issues, how can I help?

[Dan Williams]

On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 15:48 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Bill Crawford
> <billcrawford1970 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If you have multi-channel hardware that mixes itself, then using
> > PulseAudio sort of defeats the purpose of that hardware ;o)
> 
> Such hardware is as far as I understand it, really no longer sold and
> has not been for some time, because it just makes more sense to do in
> software.

"The thing is, hardware mixing is a thing of the past, modern soundcards
don't do it anymore. Precisely for doing things like mixing in software
SIMD CPU extensions like SSE have been invented. Modern sound cards
these days are kind of "dumbed" down, high-quality DACs. They don't do
mixing anymore, many modern chips don't even do volume control anymore."

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/jeffrey-stedfast.html

Dan