----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick" <[email protected]>
> I am new to Rivendell and am trying to evaluate it for a local > community radio station I'm helping get started. [ ... ] > 1) Don't make users fight so hard to simply recognize and utilize a > sound card! For goodness sake, this software is about playing audio! I am *right here* to tell you: it's not the developers. It's that the state of audio on Linux is (*still*), frankly, miserable. Why? Cause *everyone* has a BFI. There's no one audio API you can write to, and be sure things have any hope of working. On any given distribution, you might see as many as *four* different layers of audio, chosen at random from OSS, ALSA, ARTS, eSound, PulseAudio, Phonon, and at least 6 more I can't remember the names of at the moment, and it's very difficult for even a pro to be able to figure out what's stacked atop what, and how to configure it. This is the horror our distribution packagers are *supposed* to protect us from... but it doesn't make it any easier for app developers, who *still* have to target some subset of the whole mess, just to get audio out. I'm slightly amazed Fred is even still sane... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
