[MPlayer-dev-eng] audio_out.c question

[Jan Knutar]

On Thursday 23 March 2006 22:48, Rich Felker wrote:

> The API is exactly what's wrong with ALSA. It's disgusting
> windows-ism: you have to use a bloated userspace library to interface
> with the hardware rather than unix way (ioctl).

After reading Alsa and OpenAL, the old way of banging the soundblaster
hardware directly yourself starts to feel much more appealing.... :)