[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: -ao list brings up a Q: best -ao order?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:42:53AM +0200, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
> Sidik Isani wrote:
> 
> >   DISPLAY too, but don't want to have everyone pay the cost of an
> >   attempted socket connection before trying sdl possibly.
> 
> Did you test the impact of the connection attempt ? It seems unnoticable
> here. In the simple case it is connecting to the local host, which means
> libaudio looks for a socket in /tmp/.sockets/. And if it tries a tcp
> connection it will get the connection refused immediately.
> The other case is with either AUDIOSERVER set (in which case it's the
> users fault if the server is not there and the connection attempt takes
> some time) or a remote DISPLAY (And here again the host is known to be
> up, so the connection refused should come back nearly immediately).

Unless some moron setup a firewall with DENY rather than REJECT
because he thinks it's more secure. :/

Rich