On 2019-01-24 07:38, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: [...] > I'm not going to join the sndio vs. pulse discussion. > > But from a maintenance point of view it sucks big time to have a bunch > of ways to play sound, and everybody uses a different one so you have to > maintain a backend for each of those methods. > > Maybe we should outsource that problem. Write a gstreamer backend, then > delete oss/alsa/sdl/pulse/whatever backends and let gstreamer handle > that mess ...
Well, before writing a gstreamer backend, you could also say that we only support SDL in QEMU, since SDL is also a wrapper around all the other possible sound backends... Thomas
