> On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 09:09:18PM -0400, Warren wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> One of the biggest factors to take into consideration is probably that ALSA
> does OSS emulation, but not vice versa.  If we support only ALSA, then users
> who have only OSS cannot use the player.  OTOH, if we support only OSS, all
> users can use the player.

Having ALSA support will not get rid of OSS support. Right now we support
2 different sound systems concurrently, OSS (old & news) and ESound. Adding
ALSA can be handled in the same way where we determine at run time what
is available and use it. You could also, to save room, just compile in
support for 1 sound system.

--greg.

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