Various Sound Backend - Why?

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/30/2012 04:15 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>
> Am 30.03.2012 06:27, schrieb Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor:
>> Hello,
>>
>> This one is general Linux question. Up until Fedora 15, there was xine and then there was gstreamer (Which contains
>> good,bad & ugly) . Then there was fluendo. Except xine, the later ones still exist.
>>
>> I mean, they all are sound backend / codec, right? Then why having many of them?
> Linux, MacOS, Windows, FreeBSD and Solaris are all operating systems
> why do we have many of them?
>

Oh, Oh....  I know, I know....  Pick me.....

So we can have a choice?   :-) :-)

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