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PulseAudio 4.0 and more

By Arun | Published: June 4, 2013

And we’re back … PulseAudio 4.0 is out! There’s both a short and super-detailed changelog in the release notes. For the lazy, this release brings a bunch of Bluetooth stability updates, better low latency handling, performance improvements, and a whole lot more. :) One interesting thing is that for this release, we kept a parallel [...]

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PulseAudio in GSoC 2013

By Arun | Published: April 11, 2013

That’s right — PulseAudio will be participating in the Google Summer of Code again this year! We had a great set of students and projects last year, and you’ve already seen some their work in the last release. There are some more details on how to get involved on the mailing list. We’re looking forward [...]

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PulseAudio 3.0

By Arun | Published: December 18, 2012

Yay, we just released PulseAudio 3.0! I’m not going to rehash the changelog that you can find in the release announcement as well as the longer release notes. I would like to thank the 36 contributors over the last 6 months who have made this release what it is and continue to demonstrate what a [...]

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PulseConf 2012: Report

By Arun | Published: November 6, 2012

For those of you who missed my previous updates, we recently organised a PulseAudio miniconference in Copenhagen, Denmark last week. The organisation of all this was spearheaded by ALSA and PulseAudio hacker, David Henningsson. The good folks organising the Ubuntu Developer Summit / Linaro Connect were kind enough to allow us to colocate this event. [...]

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grsec and PulseAudio (and Gentoo)

By Arun | Published: October 30, 2012

This problem seems to bite some of our hardened users a couple of times a year, so thought I’d blog about it. If you are using grsec and PulseAudio, you must not enable CONFIG_GRKERNSEC_SYSFS_RESTRICT in your kernel, else autodetection of your cards will fail. PulseAudio’s module-udev-detect needs to access /sys to discover what cards are [...]

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PulseConf Schedule

By Arun | Published: October 29, 2012

David has now published a tentative schedule for the PulseAudio Mini-conference (I’m just going to call it PulseConf — so much easier on the tongue). For the lazy, these are some of the topics we’ll be covering: Vision and mission — where we are and where we want to be Improving our patch review process [...]

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PulseConf!

By Arun | Published: October 4, 2012

For those of you who missed it, your friendly neighbourhood PulseAudio hackers are converging on Copenhagen in a month to discuss, plan and hack on the future of PulseAudio. We’re doing this for the first time, so I’m super-excited! David has posted details so if this is of interest to you, you should definitely join [...]

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PulseAudio 2.0: Twice The Goodness!

By Arun | Published: May 12, 2012

That’s right, it’s finally out! Thanks go out to all our contributors for the great work (there’s too many — see the shortlog!). The highlights of the release follow. Head over to the announcement or release notes for more details. Dynamic sample rate switching by Pierre-Louis Bossart: This makes PulseAudio even more power efficient. Jack [...]

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Androidifying your autotools build the easy way

By Arun | Published: May 2, 2012

Derek Foreman has finally written up a nice blog post about his Androgenizer tool, which we’ve used for porting PulseAudio, GStreamer, Wayland, Telepathy and most of their dependencies to Android. If you’ve got an autotools-based project that you’d like to build on Android, whether on the NDK or system-wide this is really useful.

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PulseAudio on Android: Part 2

By Arun | Published: April 30, 2012

Some of you might’ve noticed that there has been a bunch of work happening here at Collabora on making cool open source technologies such as GStreamer, Telepathy, Wayland and of course, PulseAudio available on Android. Since my last blog post on this subject, I got some time to start looking at replacing AudioFlinger (recap: that’s [...]

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