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Re: PulseAudio and Phonon?
by Kevin Krammer on Thursday 01/Nov/2007, @05:00

Sound servers are usually used for either mixing sounds from different source into one, probably applying effects to each source, or for sending the data somewhere else, e.g. over the network to a partner sound server.

Multimedia frameworks do not need a soundserver, i.e. it is not a technical requirement.
The mixing can also be done in the audio driver or the audio hardware itself, things like redirecting sound can also be handled by the framework itself.

Usually multimedia frameworks therefore provide several output options, e.g. directly using the sound device and a couple of sound servers.

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