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diff --git a/audio/apulse/README b/audio/apulse/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..75d2adf6df --- /dev/null +++ b/audio/apulse/README @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +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. + +Note: It's recommended to uninstall PulseAudio before install apulse. |