On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 21:12 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 02:57:11PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 18:02 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:05:00PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Now... if something can be > > > > done in userspace, it probably should. > > > > > > And that usually means it just isn't done. Cases in point: > > > multichannel audio software mixing, video pixel formats conversion. > > > > What are you talking about? ALSA does mixing in userspace, it works > > great. > > You have an interesting definition of "great". > > 1- It doesn't work without an annoyingly complex, extremely badly > documented user configuration. To the point that it doesn't work in > either an out-of-the-box, updated Fedora Core 3 nor an > out-of-the-box gentoo. > File a bug report with your distro then. This is supposed to work OOTB. > 2- It doesn't work for programs that do not use the annoyingly complex > and horribly documented alsa library, which includes everything > that still uses OSS[1]. > There's plenty of ALSA documentation. Anyway mixing for OSS apps does work, they just have to use the aoss wrapper. Lee
