A Talk by Arun Raghavan (Ford_Prefect), at Main Conference

If you're curious about how programs on Linux, and particularly the GNOME desktop, play audio on your computer, and what the pieces are, this is the talk for you.

As the abstract suggests, I'll be talking about the various pieces of the Linux/GNOME audio stack. This will be a high-level description, rather than an API deep dive. At the end of the talk, people would have an understanding of what the basic pieces are, why we have them, and what they should use when.

I'll be happy to do a more detailed hallway session on whatever is interesting to people afterwards.

I'm a long time F/OSS enthusiast, contributor. Currently I help develop/maintain the PulseAudio sound server and contribute to the GStreamer multimedia framework.

More at: http://arunraghavan.net/