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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:47:13PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 06:37:30PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:38:01AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 10:13:44AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:07:14AM +0200, Gianluigi Tiesi wrote:
> > > > > uh... the post started with a question: prefer alsa to oss as
> > > > > __default__ so why this "semi-flame"?
> > > > > As most of you don't agree to this, just leave as is.
> > > > > Package develpers can choice the best driver for their packages
> > > > > and who builds manually mplayer knowns for sure how to change
> > > > > driver in the conf.
> > > > 
> > > > Good point.  Note that several distro packages already set ALSA as
> > > > default audio output driver.
> > > 
> > > Which is incredibly nonsensical. If these distros provide the OSS API
> > > in their kernel config, then it's better and should be preferred. If
> > > they disabled the OSS API in the kernel, then MPlayer will already
> > > fallback to ALSA, so there's no need to make ALSA default...
> > 
> > It's the other way around: The intention is to actually prefer the ALSA
> > audio output driver over OSS.  OSS - for better or worse - is simply on
> > its way out, at least under Linux.  Note that I don't care at all and
> > don't wish to flame about this subject.
> 
> No, it's not. It works, has always worked, and will always work. And
> as a leading project, MPlayer has a moral obligation to put pressure
> on the kernel developers to ensure that it continues to work, and work
> well. If this were my decision, I would have DROPPED alsa support from
> MPlayer years ago since it's redundant and lower quality than OSS.

MPlayer a "leading" project?  Leading in what?  Where are the hundreds
of (paid) developers?  Do you realize that vlc has an order of magnitude
more downloads than we have?

If you really think that we can "put pressure on" the Linux developers,
then you are seriously deluded...

Diego