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

[Rich Felker]

On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 11:28:54PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:14:16PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> >...
> > In the fastest mode, it's slower than libavcodec's resampler.
> > In the best quality mode, it's lower quality than libavcodec's
> > resampler.
> > 
> > Now why on earth would anyone want to use this crap?? It's only
> > configurable between two extremes of sucking: very bad quality, or
> > very bad performance.
> 
> Adjusting a quote from a wise man named "Rich Felker" in another email a 
> few minutes earlier by replacing "OSS" with "ALSA":
> 
> PLEASE stop confusing ALSA (the API) with the Linux implementation. 
> These are two separate things entirely. What you're doing is equivalent 
> to complaining that X sucks because XFree86 or X.org is a bad 
> implementation.

:)

The problem here is that both the API and the implementation are
horrible. My complaints stand.

Also ALSA the implementation and ALSA the API are inseparable because
the API is not documented and there has been no attempt to make it an
open standard where multiple implementations are possible. Indeed I
suspect the API itself is nonportable in the sense that it's not
suited for use on posix systems other than Linux unless they do things
in Linux-like ways.

Rich