Linux Sound Stack

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Samuel Raynor edited this page Dec 2, 2018 · 2 revisions

This article is intended to give a visual representation of Linux-base OS sound architecture.

                        Kernel
                          |
                          V
                         ALSA
                          |
                          V
                     Sound Servers
                 (PulseAudio,JACK,OSS)

| | | V V V Streaming Cod-Dec Desktop Sound Gaming Sound (GStreamer) Events (SDL) (Phonon,KNotify)[KDE] (libcanberra)[XDG]