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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
I’ve been meaning to try this for a while, and we’ve heard a number of requests from the community as well. Recently, I got some time here at Collabora to give it a go — that is, to get PulseAudio running on an Android device and see how it compares with Android’s AudioFlinger. The Contenders [...]
Longish day, but I did want to post something fun before going to sleep — I just pushed out patches to hook up the WebRTC folks’ analog gain control to PulseAudio. So your mic will automatically adjust the input level based on how loud you’re speaking. It’s quite quick to adapt if you’re too loud, [...]
As I’d blogged about last week, we had a couple of Audio BoF sessions last week. Here’s a summary of what was discussed. I’ve collected items in relevance order rather than chronological order to make for easier reading. I think I have everything covered, I’ll update this post if one of the attendees points out [...]
For those who are in Prague for GstConf, LinuxCon, ELCE, etc. — don’t forget we’ve a couple of interesting audio-related things happening: Today (Tuesday), at 4 pm, I’ll be talking about recent developments in PulseAudio Tomorrow (Wednesday), at 11am, we’re continuing the Audio BoF that I had [mentioned earlier] (since we ran out of time [...]
I’ve just pushed a bunch of patches by Pierre-Louis Bossart that can have a pretty decent CPU/power impact. These introduce the concept of an “alternate sample rate”. Currently, PulseAudio runs all your devices at a default sample rate, which is set to 44.1 kHz on most systems (this can be configured). All streams running at [...]
Prague is an interesting place to be at this time of the year — next week it’s playing host to the Real Time Linux Workshop. The week after that, we have the Kernel Summit, GStreamer Conference, Embedded Linux Conference Europe and LinuxCon Europe. I’m going to be at the last 3, and there’s some great [...]
As Colin Guthrie reports, PulseAudio 1.0 is now out the door! There’s a lot of new things in the release, and we should be getting a much more regular release schedule going. Head over to the full release notes for more details. A lot of people have contributed to this release and thanks to them [...]
