<div class="gmail_quote">Sometimes, I wonder why I even bother... First, recordmydesktop didn't work, so I had to film the screen with a video camera, then ffmpeg2theora took ages to transcode the video from MJPEG and added some annoying clicks to the audio track, then the new <a href="http://archive.org" target="_blank">archive.org</a> uploader didn't work, so I was stuck with using <a href="http://youtube.com" target="_blank">youtube.com</a>, which refuses to display the video in HD.<br>
<br>Alas, I am to learn again and again that the only way to have things done right is to do them yourself. On that note, I'd like to introduce to the wider audience a project that I started shortly after writing this:<br>
<br><a href="http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2008-May/021084.html" target="_blank">http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-dev/2008-May/021084.html</a><br><br>... post to the LAD list back in 2008. Well, I haven't been very active since then--well, such is life--but in the past couple of weeks I've spent some time developing the idea and I'd like to demonstrate it in the following video:<br>
<br><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-gC_ZMeGM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui-gC_ZMeGM</a><br><br>I'll be pushing my changes in the next week or two along with some other fixes and enhancements to the Non-* family. Those who have been following on #lad may have already seen draft versions of the NSM API. The final draft (version 1.0) will be posted to the LAD list soon also.<br>
<br>Robust audio session management on Linux is now a solved problem. You're welcome ;-)<br><br>Enjoy!<br>
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