On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Chris Wareham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I may be wrong, but I recall the main argument for inclusion of ALSA in > Linux was that the version of OSS it replaced couldn't multiplex audio, > or could only do so on one particular cards hardware mixer. > Considering that ALSA's kernel drivers still don't do software mixing and that mixing functionality was only introduced when dmix came around, I'd say you may indeed be wrong.
The reasons for ALSA inclusion that I remember were a saner design, lower latency, more active maintainers and more drivers. Unfortunately that's only the kernel bits, not libalsa. But today we're left with that libalsa, which is a library with multiple backends (Pulse, Linux ALSA drivers, Jack and there might even be an experimental OSS backend). And I don't see why the BSD people can't make that lib work. I still have the feeling that they are disgrundtled by the L standing for Linux in there. Cheers, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Swfdec mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/swfdec
