[MPlayer-dev-eng] [patch] prefer ALSA over OSS

[Ville Syrjälä]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:04:37PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 04:23:14PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > In Linux kernel 2.6, ALSA is the default sound system.
> > It contains an in-kernel OSS emulation, but using ALSA directly is 
> > better.
> > 
> > MPlayer supports both ALSA and OSS, and this patch changes the order to 
> > check for ALSA before checking for OSS.
> > 
> > --- libao2/audio_out.c.old	2007-04-28 01:08:17.000000000 +0200
> > +++ libao2/audio_out.c	2007-04-28 01:08:44.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -84,9 +84,6 @@
> >  #ifdef MACOSX
> >  	&audio_out_macosx,
> >  #endif
> > -#ifdef USE_OSS_AUDIO
> > -        &audio_out_oss,
> > -#endif
> >  #ifdef HAVE_ALSA1X
> >  	&audio_out_alsa,
> >  #endif
> > @@ -96,6 +93,9 @@
> >  #ifdef HAVE_ALSA5
> >  	&audio_out_alsa5,
> >  #endif
> > +#ifdef USE_OSS_AUDIO
> > +        &audio_out_oss,
> > +#endif
> 
> Alsa 0.5 certainly shouldn't be preferred over OSS.

How about giving ALSA 0.5 support the boot. Last 0.5 release was made in
2001.

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