Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

2006-11-07 Thread Pieter Palmers
James Courtier-Dutton wrote: Paul Davis wrote: Hannu was the guy who made sound on linux possible in the first place. Have a little respect. OK, so he and others decided to try to make a business out of it, and they bowed down to NDA requirements from vendors as part of doing that. Many of us

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

2006-11-07 Thread Garett Shulman
I think Hannu annoyed a few of us by stating that ALSA is designed by hackers. There is absolutely no question in my mind that ALSA is designed by professionals. True. However... there are definitely some hackish aspects to the alsa project. On numerous occasions I have found the files

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

2006-11-07 Thread John Rigg
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:56:52AM -0700, Garett Shulman wrote: If you ask me... I would recommend that the alsa team drop all of the ambitions plugin stuff (except sampl rate bit rate) Without `ambitious plugin stuff' like pcm_multi, nobody would be able to use multiple sound cards with

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

2006-11-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:54 +, John Rigg wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:56:52AM -0700, Garett Shulman wrote: If you ask me... I would recommend that the alsa team drop all of the ambitions plugin stuff (except sampl rate bit rate) Without `ambitious plugin stuff' like pcm_multi,

Re: [linux-audio-dev] OSS will be back (was Re: alsa, oss , efficiency?)

2006-11-07 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 16:54 +, John Rigg wrote: On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:56:52AM -0700, Garett Shulman wrote: If you ask me... I would recommend that the alsa team drop all of the ambitions plugin stuff (except sampl rate bit rate) Without `ambitious