ALSA, OSS and the pointless of switching to Pulse [Was: Paris summit]

[Paul Sladen]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-26 at 13:23 +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
> > Multiple-open OSS to an ALSA backend needs writing
> > 
> >   ALSA: Great ultra low-level hardware-interface. 
> 
> Attached is the minimal ALSA program to play back audio.  It's 51 lines

I think you may have just proved your own point, "QED" as they say!  ;-)
The following is the minimum to play back audio with OSS:

  $ cat file > /dev/dsp

> I suspect that many of the ALSA bashers have not even looked at it
> lately.

It's not so much the 'bashing', each of us has our own opinions on the
strengths of ALSA.  Whereas the reality is that programs out there use
OSS;  and therefore it is our job to figure our how to make it 'just work'.

If it does not 'just work', then it's a bug on our part.

	-Paul
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