On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:12 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:57:11PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 18:02 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:05:00PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Now... if something can be
> > > > done in userspace, it probably should.
> > >
> > > And that usually means it just isn't done. Cases in point:
> > > multichannel audio software mixing, video pixel formats conversion.
> >
> > What are you talking about? ALSA does mixing in userspace, it works
> > great.
>
> You have an interesting definition of "great".
>
> 1- It doesn't work without an annoyingly complex, extremely badly
> documented user configuration. To the point that it doesn't work in
> either an out-of-the-box, updated Fedora Core 3 nor an
> out-of-the-box gentoo.
>
File a bug report with your distro then. This is supposed to work OOTB.
> 2- It doesn't work for programs that do not use the annoyingly complex
> and horribly documented alsa library, which includes everything
> that still uses OSS[1].
>
There's plenty of ALSA documentation. Anyway mixing for OSS apps does
work, they just have to use the aoss wrapper.
Lee
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