PulseAudio
| PulseAudio
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| Basisdaten
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| Entwickler | Lennart Poettering |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 17. Juli 2004[1] |
| Aktuelle Version | 17.0[2] (12. Januar 2024) |
| Betriebssystem | FreeBSD[3], Linux[3], Solaris[3], Microsoft Windows[3], macOS[3] |
| Programmiersprache | C[4] |
| Lizenz | GNU LGPL[4] |
| www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/ | |
PulseAudio (formerly PolypAudio) is a cross-platform, networked sound server project licensed under the LGPL. It works under Linux and other Unix-like operating systems and Microsoft Windows. It is intended to be an improved drop-in replacement for the Enlightened Sound Daemon (ESD).
Features
The main PulseAudio features include:
- An extensible plugin architecture with support for loadable modules.
- Compatibility with many popular audio applications.
- Support for multiple audio sources and sinks.
- Low-latency operation and support for latency measurement.
- A zero-copy memory architecture for processor resource efficiency.
- A command-line interface with scripting capabilities.
- A sound daemon with command line reconfiguration capabilities.
- Built-in sample conversion and resampling capabilities.
- The ability to combine multiple sound cards into one.
- The ability to synchronize multiple playback streams.
See also
External links
The Project Formerly Known as Polypaudio, a blog entry by one of the PulseAudio developers discussing the name change
- ↑ Version 0.1 http:// freedesktop.org/software/pulseaudio/releases/polypaudio-0.1.tar.gz released. (abgerufen am 22. Februar 2023).
- ↑ [ANNOUNCE] PulseAudio 17.0. 12. Januar 2024 (abgerufen am 14. Januar 2024).
- ↑ a b c d e www.freedesktop.org.
- ↑ a b www.freedesktop.org.