hi, Arthur:
i've post the consultation on ALSA mailinglist, hope there's good news.
I still think that it is not handy to let users recompiled ALSA sound drive
again.......
regards,
Kevin
2009/9/7 Arthur Chen <[email protected]>
> Hi Kevin,
>
> I have searched the Internet and found some article on how to install alsa
> manually, I think we can have a try.
> Sorry for the spell mistake of LGPLed.
> Regards,
> Kevin
> 2009/9/7 Samuel Kevin <[email protected]>
>
> > 2009/9/7 Arthur Chen <[email protected]>
> >
> > > Hi Kevin，
> > >
> > > I know ALSA is used in Ubuntu system for alsa-base package is
> installed
> > on
> > > it. But we don't know the license of the deb package, I think we should
> > >
> > maybe we could ask that on the forum of Ubuntu . it is embarassed to ask
> > users to compiled the sound driver again manually....
> >
> > > download the alsa source package, compiled it as GPLed like ffmpeg,
> then
> > we
> > >
> > GPLed? should be LGPLed
> >
> > > use the APIs of ALSA to capture audio.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Arthur
> > > 2009/9/7 Samuel Kevin <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > > hi Arthur:
> > > > The last step is always the hardest. Alsa now is popular in linux
> > > > distribution, at least in my Ubuntu. i just checked it and i found
> that
> > > it
> > > > is both GPLed and LGPLed. It is quiet awkward that how could i know
> > > whether
> > > > the alsa driver in my system is GPLed or LGPLed?
> > > > regards
> > > > Kevin
> > > >
> > > > 2009/9/7 Arthur Chen <[email protected]>
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > I thought we have solved the oss problem last time for Kevin and I
> > > > deleted
> > > > > some code related to OSS, but we didn't notice that OSS is used to
> > > > capture
> > > > > audio,. The APIs of OSS is in <linux/soundcard.h>,. Generally
> > speaking
> > > > OSS
> > > > > is used as soundcard driver, but it is GPLed. Another Linux
> soundcard
> > > > > driver
> > > > > is ALSA, it has LGPLed version.
> > > > > To capture audio, the using of APIs of soundcard driver is
> > inevitable,
> > > so
> > > > > maybe we should use ALSA to replace OSS.
> > > > >
> > > > > Best regards,
> > > > > Arthur
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU
> > > > Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech
> > > > http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU
> > Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech
> > http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
> >
>
--
Bowen Ma a.k.a Samuel Kevin @ Bluesky Dev Team XJTU
Shaanxi Province Key Lab. of Satellite and Terrestrial Network Tech
http://incubator.apache.org/bluesky/
