On Thu, 28.08.08 18:22, Lennart Poettering ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Heya! > > I just release libcanberra 0.8.
Yes, add a "d" here. > Biggest changes are Joe Marcus Clarke's OSS driver and Marc-Andre > Lureau's GStreamer driver. > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/ > > http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libcanberra/libcanberra-0.8.tar.gz > > Please take notice of the new new comments I added to the README: > > <snip> > The OSS driver is incomplete: only sound files that are in a format > natively understood by the sound card are supported. If the sample > type, channel map or sampling rate of the sound file are not supported > by the sound card no automatic conversion will take place and the file > will not be played. Also note that the OSS backend is most likely > incompatible with OSS4, due to subtle incompatibilities between OSS4 > and the OSS 3.x. > > It is recommended to always take the "shortest" path from libcanberra > to the audio device. I.e. don't use the GStreamer plugin if > libcanberra supports the final output target natively. Besides being > more resource-friendly and less error-prone, some advanced > functionality might get lost with each layer you add to your > stack. For example: while you could use libcanberra's Gstreamer > backend to output to a PulseAudio server this will not be able to make > use of sample cacheing or will be able to attach additional meta data > to the sounds played, which might be necessary for effects like > positional event sounds. > </snip> > > Joe, Marc-Andre, thanks for your contributions to this release! > > Have fun, > > Lennart > Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ libcanberra-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://tango.0pointer.de/mailman/listinfo/libcanberra-discuss
