Bart Smaalders wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>
>> By the way, use of $AUDIODEV has been a standard technique since at
>> least Sun Ray first shipped. Its not new on Solaris.
>>
>> In situations where there is more than one audio device, /dev/audio
>> won't necessarily point to the right device anyway. The fact that
>> the 3rd party app can't use a different audio device is a severe
>> shortcoming in the app.
>>
>> -- Garrett
>>
>
> Picking output device selection at open time seems quaint, given our
> in-kernel mixer architecture. For example, how does virtual terminal
> support work with /dev/audio? If I plug in a USB headset, do I need to
> restart all applications using audio to redirect the sound to the
> headset?
Today? Yes. Again, we're looking at fixes for this, but we don't have
it today.
>
> Why not just think of /dev/audio as a virtual I/O device, and map
> it to real hardware, network connections, dynamically?
Yes. Not this case.
-- Garrett
>
> - Bart
>
