[MPlayer-dev-eng] merging alsa9/alsa1.x

[James Courtier-Dutton]

joy at pingfm.org wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a reason why you did all that #ifdef stuff, instead of just 
>>adding 2 #define lines like I showed?
>>With the 2 #define lines, you just use the lines under "#ifdef 
>>HAVE_ALSA1X" for both 0.9 and 1.x
> 
> cause im not really convinced that alsa1.x-lib is backwards compatible 
> to alsa9. i mean the case if somebody has alsa9-lib installed and uses 
> mplayer with alsa1.x-driver+your defines.
> did you tested it? the above case?
> 

We have used the defines in xine for about 2 years now, so I would say 
they have been tested. :-)

Cheers
James