We already had a patch submitted for ALSA support. I did not 
commit it into the audio project because it crashes on some
boxes but not others and had a couple clean-up issues. The
person working on it had other commitments and has not got
back to it.

The ALSA patches for Helix can be found attached to the following
issue-zilla. I feel that there is probably just a few hours
work left to get it in (if you are familiar with Helix and
ribosome integration) and maybe a couple more for bug fixing:



    https://audio.helixcommunity.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6


--greg.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren" <warren at cacmedia.tv>
To: <dev at player.helixcommunity.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 6:09 PM
Subject: [hxplay] Sound systems


> Hi all,
> 
> During meetings at Real yesterday in Seattle, the subject of OSS vs Alsa
> came up.  Currently, the player uses OSS, but in the current linux
> kernels (2.6 series and the 2.5 development series) OSS has been
> depreciated in favor of alsa.  Additionally, many distributions that use
> the older 2.4 kernels ship alsa as well.
> 
> Therefore I am proposing that the new player be written to support alsa
> rather than oss.  I was told that it would be best to let the community
> at large decide this.
> 
> Therefore I submit this question for discussion:  Should the GTK player
> be wrotten to support OSS or ALSA?
> 
> Regards,
> Warren
> 
> 
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