On Wed, 2005-15-06 at 10:36 +0000, ix(a)replic.net wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 11:50:11AM +0200, Lars Luthman
wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 20:52 -0400, Lee Revell
wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:16 +0200, Jay Vaughan
wrote:
b) an [mplayer/skype] patch-fest to bring them in
line with that
strategy using actual source changes (where possible)
Skype is closed source and the mplayer developers are a pain in the ass
to deal with due to blatant pro-OSS (as in /dev/dsp) bias. If it were
easy these would have been fixed long ago.
Mplayer already has support for a lot of different audio interfaces
(including ALSA and JACK). I don't know how good or stable it is, but
I've never had any problems using them.
never worked right here, end up using the arts backend (and jack backend for arts...
and alsa backend for jack...). how many chained APIs does one need?
Well, if Alsa went the CoreAudio direction and did a proper
callback-based audio API ala Jack, and did s/w mixing automagically, we
wouldn't need all this mess.
Unfortunately, the Alsa people didn't seem to think replacing OSS was a
good opportunity to improve anything, so here we are... let's hear it
for 1995.
-DR-