PulseAudio and sound apps (was: Re: Orphaning a few packages)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 14:01 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > There is work happening between PulseAudio and Jack to allow automatic
> > peaceful coexistence.
> > See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/device-reservation.html
> 
> That's not coexistence, it allows only one or the other to work at a time.
> It doesn't solve the real problem at all, e.g. try recording audio output
> from a PulseAudio app in a JACK-based audio recorder with this "solution".
> 

Yes, it does solve the 'use one sound server at a time' problem. Sounds
like a good starting point to me. I have no idea how relevant your
'free-flowing sound streams' scenario is...