On Wed, 2005-15-06 at 10:36 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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-
