Microsofts new way of bashing Linux

[Florian Diesch]

"Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-17-06 at 18:20 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
>
>     > I can play an AC3-encoded movie file on a system with only stereo capabilities
>     > using any audio/video application because the sound system downmixes
>     > automagically behind the scene.  Under Linux I have to hunt around my various
>     > playback applications from movie to movie because some files will play under
>     > Totem, some under Xine, some under VLC, etc. because downmixing is the domain
>     > of the application, not the "Advanced" sound architecture's.
>
>     It doesn't sound to be exactly useful to me to compare the features of a low
>     level API like ALSA with high level API like the Windows API. It's like
>     complaining that plain X has no function to draw dialogs.
>
> I'm not comparing ALSA to Windows' multimedia API.

I got a different impression, but that may be because of my somewhat
limited knowledge of English. As I don't think this kind of discussion
leads to anything useful I'll stop here.


   Florian
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