[linux-audio-dev] desktop audio resumed

[Peter Zubaj]

Cares windows about supporting unix (linux), OS X sound kernel APIs ?
Cares OS X about this. Why linux should care. If there is stupid thing
in OSS sound API should we live with it forever or should we fix it.

Skype is cross platform application. I don't think, it internally
depends on OSS api.

I think alsa should provide simple library with nearly same api as OSS,
but coded as functions. This library should map 1 to 1 OSS api calls to
this library calls - for simple porting to this library. This library
should provide output to ALSA (and probably to OSS too and should be
cross platform).

If aoss can be fixed to support more apps then it should be fixed.

OSS api should be removed from kernel.

Peter Zubaj

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 11:26 +0200, Florian Schmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:17:38 -0400
> Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> 
> > No!!!  That's exactly the wrong approach, it will only encourage
> > applications to use the OSS API.  Do you really still want to be using
> > the same ancient binary-only flashplayer/realplayer plugin for 5 more
> > years?
> > 
> > Why don't you ask the Skype developers when they plan to support ALSA?
> > Or figure out why it crashes with aoss?
> 
> I know my opinion is unpopular, but afaik OSS is more of a standard in
> the unix (not linux) world than ALSA is. There's no way around providing
> an OSS emulation that works (i mean sw mixing, etc.) for all those OSS
> apps that are multiplatform.
> 
> Flo
>