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PulseAudio
Description
PulseAudio, previously known as Polypaudio, is a sound server for POSIX and WIN32 systems. It is a drop in replacement for the ESD sound server with much better latency, mixing/re-sampling quality and overall architecture.

These are some of PulseAudio's features:

* High quality software mixing of multiple audio streams with support for
more than one sink/source. May be used to combine multiple sound cards
into one (with sample rate adjustment).

* Wide range of supported client libraries. ESD, ALSA, oss, libao and
GStreamer client applications are supported as-is. Native PulseAudio
plug-ins are also available for xmms and mplayer.

* Good low latency behaviour and very accurate latency measurement for
playback and recording. Ability to fully synchronize multiple playback
streams.

* Network transparency, allowing an application to play back or record
audio on a different machine than the one it is running on.

* Extensible plug-in architecture with plug-ins for jackd, multicast-rtp
lirc and avahi, just to name a few.

This package contains the daemon and basic module set.
Home Page: http://pulseaudio.org/
Interface: Command Line
Associated Programs
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio
padevchooser PulseAudio Device Chooser
paman PulseAudio Manager
paprefs PulseAudio Preferences
pavucontrol PulseAudio Volume Control
pavumeter PulseAudio Volume Meter
pulseaudio-esound-compat PulseAudio ESD compatibility layer
pulseaudio-module-hal HAL device detection module for PulseAudio sound server
pulseaudio-module-x11 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server
pulseaudio-utils Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server
Available deb Repositories (how-to add a respository)
Debian 32-bit 64-bit
etch 0.9.5-5etch1 0.9.5-5etch1
lenny 0.9.10-3
sid 0.9.10-3 0.9.10-3

Ubuntu 32-bit 64-bit
feisty 0.9.5-5ubuntu4 0.9.5-5ubuntu4
feisty-backports 0.9.6-1ubuntu2~feisty1 0.9.6-1ubuntu2~feisty1
gutsy 0.9.6-1ubuntu2 0.9.6-1ubuntu2
hardy 0.9.10-1ubuntu1 0.9.10-1ubuntu1
intrepid 0.9.10-2ubuntu9 0.9.10-2ubuntu9

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Available rpm Repositories
OpenSUSE 32-bit 64-bit
10.2 0.9.5-21 0.9.5-21
10.3 0.9.6-39 0.9.6-39
11.0 0.9.10-26.1 0.9.10-26.1

PCLinuxOS 32-bit
2007 0.9.5-2pclos2007

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