Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:50:26 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] OSS Proxy using CUSE |
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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 03:33:14AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: > > Sorry for being destructive, but 6 years after ALSA went into the > > kernel we are slightly approaching the point where all applications > > support ALSA. > > Yeah, I have to agree it's a bit too late but the exclusion between OSS > and more modern sound systems (be it ALSA or PA) still bugged me quite a > bit. There always seems this one off app that wasn't quite there - be > it mpg123 for whatever reason I still enjoy to use from time to time,
mpg123 supports ALSA since 1998 (sic).
> vmware which is a genuine pain in the ass to get working with LD_PRELOAD > tricks (hopefully 6.5 will finally use ALSA but wait we're all going PA > now...) or scorch-3D (and many other games) where aoss delivers horrible > sound after playing for a while.
Scorched3D gives me sound with native ALSA.
Is your libSDL not linked with libasound?
>... > Anyways, the thing is that unlike what was originally expected, dropping > an major programming API doesn't really work too well even after six > years of trying.
Good ALSA emulation was a hot topic a few years ago when popular software like Flash and Skype didn't support ALSA, but the use cases are becoming rare.
2 out of your 3 examples above were software where native ALSA works, but your distributions seems to ship you a setup where you thought OSS emulation was required.
Which distribution are you using whose makers seem to need a big cluebat?
> Maybe because OSS is still kicking on other unices.
Which Unix with a big userbase uses OSS as primary sound system?
OSS-only applications tend to be older Linux-only applications.
Cross-platform applications either ship half a dozen different sound drivers (including ALSA), or more commonly use some library that offers one API no matter which sound system gets used.
>... > Thanks. > tejun
cu Adrian
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