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diff --git a/audio/apulse/README b/audio/apulse/README index 75d2adf6df..c072bfde14 100644 --- a/audio/apulse/README +++ b/audio/apulse/README @@ -1,15 +1,17 @@ PulseAudio emulation for ALSA. -The program provides an alternative partial implementation of the PulseAudio -API. It consists of a loader script and a number of shared libraries with the -same names as from original PulseAudio, so applications could dynamically load -them and think they are talking to PulseAudio. Internally, no separate sound -mixing daemon is used. Instead, apulse relies on ALSA's dmix, dsnoop, and plug -plugins to handle multiple sound sources and capture streams running at the same -time. dmix plugin muxes multiple playback streams; dsnoop plugin allow multiple -applications to capture from a single microphone; and plug plugin transparently -converts audio between various sample formats, sample rates and channel numbers. -For more than a decade now, ALSA comes with these plugins enabled and configured -by default. Cmake is required to build it. +The program provides an alternative partial implementation of the +PulseAudio API. It consists of a loader script and a number of +shared libraries with the same names as from original PulseAudio, +so applications could dynamically load them and think they are +talking to PulseAudio. Internally, no separate sound mixing daemon is +used. Instead, apulse relies on ALSA's dmix, dsnoop, and plug plugins +to handle multiple sound sources and capture streams running at the +same time. dmix plugin muxes multiple playback streams; dsnoop plugin +allow multiple applications to capture from a single microphone; +and plug plugin transparently converts audio between various sample +formats, sample rates and channel numbers. For more than a decade now, +ALSA comes with these plugins enabled and configured by default. Cmake +is required to build it. Note: It's recommended to uninstall PulseAudio before install apulse. |