official Linux Flash blog (OSS)

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 04:34:29PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:

> In the spirit of "Being conservative in what you send and liberal in what
> you accept", it's our job to ensure that whichever interface a programmer
> chooses to use (ALSA, gstreamer, esd, OSS) that they all work cooperatively
> together, generate nice sound from the speakers and don't prevent other
> programs from running (by hogging the sound device).

Which is, sadly, pretty much impossible if they're using OSS.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org