You fighted very hard. Now it is time to admit your defeat, remove it.
2015-01-28 14:18 GMT+01:00 Alexandre Ratchov <a...@caoua.org>: > Hi all, > > xawtv is the last user of libossaudio pcm ioctls (aka non-mixer ones) > which we're trying to remove. But because of its internals, it can't > be converted to sndio; probably for the same reason it is not > converted to ALSA either. On the other hand: > > - as analog tv is not widespead these days, it's mostly usable > on a s-video or composite inputs which tend to be rare > > - we've other programs to watch/record tv with bktr devices (ex > mplayer, ffmpeg) > > - the port wasn't updated since 2004 > > My question is: is xawtv still used at all? Is it used to record > audio? I don't mean possibly useful, I mean actually used nowadays. > > If yes, I'll have to spend weeks on working with upstream on modifying > its internals to make it use sndio. I'd be OK with that. > > If not, the code to record audio could be #ifdef'ed out, or the port > possibly removed if not used at all. This would save me a lot of time > which I could spend more useful audio stuff. > > Opinions? Anyone with other plants for it? > > -- Alexandre > >
