[posted and mailed -- damn evolution! ] On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 22:09 -0800, David Liontooth wrote:
First: sorry for being absent from list/CVS, I'm pretty busy with real-life work. [...] > The latest linux kernel changelog, for 2.6.25-rc1, shows oss support is > being removed from saa7134: That's annoying, but understandable. > The soundcard argument is not that good, since many of us use DMA sound > -- the real issue is that transcode still lags in alsa support, and I > don't see any alsa support in ffmpeg yet. So removing oss support means > no tv grabbing with ffmpeg, and no old-style with transcode. Does > transcode understand alsa device names in the way mencoder does, the > hw.0 notation? yes it is (and if not, it should -> bug!), e.g.: $ transcode -x null,alsa=device=hw:0 -i /dev/zero maybe I'll release alpha8 instead beta1 and refine alsa a bit more. Bests, -- Francesco Romani // Ikitt [ Out of memory. ~ We wish to hold the whole sky, ~ But we never will. ]
