[MPlayer-dev-eng] Build with external libao

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Vladimir Mosgalin <mosgalin at VM10124.spb.edu> schrieb:
> Hi Enrico Weigelt!
> 
>  On 2006.05.09 at 15:57:26 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote next:
> 
> > I'd like to build mplayer w/ an external libao. Is this currently 
> > possible ? Are there huge changes between vanilla libao and the 
> > contained one ?
> 
> It's not possible. I don't think current mplayer's libao2 has much
> common with libao... It's been evolving on its own for a long time.

hmm, could we call it an sucessor of libao ?

I'm looking for a generic library for audio output (maybe input and 
hw supported conversion too), which can be used by all applications,
and even audio servers, so no extra layer is necessary. Something like 
DirectFB but for audio. The whole thing of audio output is handled by 
this library only. Here we the user also puts its configuration, ie. 
which devices to use, servers to connect, etc.

The libao(2) seemed to be suitable for that task.

Is there any documentation for the API of libao2 (instead of the 
source, of course ;-)) ?


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