

But each doesn't know how my system is configured, so their instructions are inadequate, incomplete, or wrong. Who knows where the problem is? Who knows what the right solution is?Įach one of these programs and packages has sound-related documentation. Each program tries to detect what's available and use the right approach, but each program and layer can be configured to use different layers. And each of these layers can be configured to talk to, bypass, or emulate the other layers, so maybe I have an emulation of OSS or JACK or some other software approach. So somehow some piece of software additionally installed the GStreamer multimedia framework and the esound daemon on my computer. Those disagreements result in multiple software packages and approaches to audio. That's complicated enough, but great minds can and do disagree if this is the best approach to audio some people think audio should be simpler, some think it should support playing across the network to your Bluetooth headset when you walk into the garden and automatically switch to 5.1 surround sound if you login to your friend's home PC. Kubuntu appears to provide an audio "software stack" consisting of the following layers: hardware audio drivers, the ALSA low-level Linux interface to audio, the PulseAudio server to mix audio streams and talk to different hardware, and KDE's Phonon audio abstraction.

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But I've also installed latest Firefox and Thunderbird and the Flash plug-in and the VLC media player these make their own decisions about how to play sounds. I'm running the Kubuntu flavor (incorporating the KDE Plasma Desktop) of the Ubuntu distribution of Linux, which makes certain decisions about how sound should be configured. For no apparent reason sound stopped playing in certain applications on my computer.
