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

[Jan Knutar]

On Sunday 29 April 2007 10:50, Attila Kinali wrote:

> Hmm.. if you think that ALSA has improved conciderabily
> in the last year, then i will try it again.
> However, if this is really the case, the it's too early
> for MPlayer to change the default. There are too many
> people out there who use two year old kernels, just
> because they didn't want to upgrade their distro.

The alsa situation has improved considerably in MPlayer after Clemens 
began fixing it, though it still does some fun things that maybe could 
be improved. For example with my no-name USB audio device I get by 
default a 10 second buffer, which is maybe a bit too much ;-) -abs 1 
fixes, of course.