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Surround Sound and Gnome

von Lennart Poettering (Red Hat, Inc.)

Saturday, 12.06.2010, Berlin I, 12:00-13:00 Uhr

Surround Sound is awesome -- if it works. In this talk I will give an overview in where we are right now with Surround Sound on Linux in general, and Gnome in particular. I'll touch: What doesn't work. What works nowadays, but didn't before. What is missing, where we rock. Where we are. Where we want to go to. Where is Waldo. Where you can help. What's on our todo list, and more.

We'll look at our audio stack and how the complexities of proper surround sound support are touched on every layer.

Keywords: ALSA, PulseAudio, Surround, Audio, Sound, Music, Multimedia, Movies, Channel Mappings, Channel Orderings, Channels, Multichannel.

Über den Autor Lennart Poettering:

I am working in Red Hat's desktop team on breaking people's audio. I wrote various components of the modern Linux desktop, like PulseAudio, Avahi, libatasmart, libcanberra, lot's of other stuff. You are most likely using some software I take the blame for. There's no escape. Muahaha. Muauauahahahha! Other than that I was born in Guatemala, grew up in Brazil and Hamburg, and now live in Berlin.