Re: [Jack-Devel] How to get mplayer and firefox/flash to play

On 12/21/2011 02:41 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
> OTOH, its interesting that OS X Lion now appears to have moved to this
> design (server/client) too. "coreaudiod" 

coreaudiod was already introduced with OSX version 10.4 (Tiger).

> now appears to a central
> user-space funnelling point for all audio on that platform, whether
> the app user or developer likes it or not. The server gets started by
> the system (and restarted when it crashes, and it does crash).

Interesting.

> I don't want to defend ALSA. Many aspects of its architecture are, in
> retrospect, really wrong. But as with X, its also unfair to criticize
> it without understanding how it really works or where the real
> problems are.

+1

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

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