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ALSA is part of the Linux kernel, while PulseAudio is middleware, a part of the lower levels of the desktop stack. So is SDL . Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ( ALSA ) is a software framework and part of the Linux kernel that provides an application programming interface (API) for sound card device drivers .
PipeWire is a server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware on Linux. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was created by Wim Taymans at Red Hat . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It handles multimedia routing and pipeline processing.
PulseAudio is a network-capable sound server program distributed via the freedesktop.org project. It runs mainly on Linux, including Windows Subsystem for Linux on Microsoft Windows and Termux on Android; various BSD distributions such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS; as well as Illumos distributions and the Solaris operating system.
The application originally used the Pulseaudio sound server as it allowed effects to be added to audio streams with ease, [4] however, now runs exclusively on the PipeWire sound server after a port in 2021. [5] It is published under the GPL-3.0-or-later license. [2]
On a low-end machine, such as a 600 MHz C3, the pulseaudio server can use 30% of the CPU. This converts a silent media-server from one which can (just) play DVDs into one which can't. Most pulseaudio-compliant applications such as mplayer will happily fall back to using ALSA natively if p.a. is uninstalled.
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LDAC is an alternative to Bluetooth SIG's SBC codec. Its main competitors are Huawei's L2HC, Qualcomm's aptX-HD/aptX Adaptive and the HWA Union/Savitech's LHDC. [1]LDAC utilizes a type of lossy compression [2] [3] by employing a hybrid coding scheme based on the modified discrete cosine transform [4] and Huffman coding [5] to provide more efficient data compression.
Digital audio editor Creator / developer Software license Microsoft Windows MacOS iOS Linux BSD Online Network storage External hardware Acoustica: Acon Digital