> Lukas Oboril wrote: > > Hi, > > > > if you woudl to do it just for ffmpeg, then I do not agree. If you > > would to do it across dude, for all apps, then I will agree :) > > > > Rule is do not use OSS as much as possible at this time. I do not > > agree to do it just for some apps and for some do not. Do it for > > all or nothing. > > > > this is my point of view. > > > > Luc
> On Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:49:27 -0400 > Stefan Teleman <Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM> wrote: > > I agree with Luc. It's not a good idea to introduce dependencies on > other components we don't control, are in a state of flux, and aren't > known to always work. > > Until the status of OSS becomes clearer (i have no idea what's going > on with OSS other than rumors i hear now and then), we can live > without OSS support. > > --Stefan Hello Stefan, Luc, Ben and everyone, OSS does not have a library, it just uses systems calls like open and ioctl. So if a binary was built with OSS support and support for another audio system like Sun Audio, then this binary would still run on a system that does not have OSS installed. This should work as long as there is some way for the user to configure which sound system they want to use. I will not use or test sound in KDE4 if OSS is removed. The analog audio on the Sun Ultra 40 is too noisy, too much static and computer noises. The audio is very high quality when using the Ultra 40 SPDIF outputs to an external iBasso D1 DACAMP headphone amplifier using OSS. I sort of thought that since there are quite a few sound cards that are supported by OSS, that OSS might be of interest to at least some users. I'm not trying to force OSS on everyone. It should be possible to build KDE4 on a system with or without OSS installed on the developer machine (while ever there is some other audio system to use). I don't really know, but the rumours I heard earlier were that Sun Audio is being replaced by OSS in OpenSolaris. I have built JDS gnome 2.22.2 with OSS. I modified ptlib in Ekiga to support OSS v4. There is a problem with Ekiga and OSS. Ekiga fails with EIO unless I give Ekiga Real Time priority with: priocntl -s -c RT -i pid `pgrep ekiga` There may be applications in KDE that work OK with the old OSS in Linux, that may require tweaks to work with OSS v4, like Ekiga did. So I don't know, OSS in KDE4 may be easy, or it may be difficult. I would guess that it should be fairly easy to compile KDE4 with OSS. But it may be difficult to tweak some applications to work well with OSS, since I do have problems with Ekiga. mplayer works great with OSS v4 on sol10u5 amd64. Thanks, Mark --
