Tag Archives: collabora

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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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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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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PulseAudio vs. AudioFlinger: Fight!

By Arun | Published: January 16, 2012

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 [...]

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i’m in yur analog gain, controlling it

By Arun | Published: November 8, 2011

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, [...]

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Notes from the Prague Audio BoFs

By Arun | Published: November 3, 2011

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 [...]

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PragueAudio

By Arun | Published: October 25, 2011

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 [...]

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