[Ffmpeg-devel] alsa input / output

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger
Wed Mar 21 11:52:32 CET 2007


Hello,
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:01:59AM +0100, Luca Abeni wrote:
[...]
> If I had known in advance that my post was going to generate a flame on 
> ffmpeg-devel, I would have skipped the part about direct alsa access :)

ALSA always creates flames because quite a few people feel that
suboptimal design choices are made without the people involved
recognizing the problems. Which is of course amplified by the fact that
nobody here is well-informed about it ;-). Unfortunately it seems to me
that all sound interfaces except maybe jack fully succeed in either making
simple stuff very difficult (pulseaudio, ALSA) or making advanced stuff
impossible (arts, esd) (or in the case of OSS having an outdated and
often broken interface/drivers).

Greetings,
Reimar D?ffinger




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