[MPlayer-dev-eng] Practical outcomes of the ALSA thread

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:22:20AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> Hello,
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:05:39PM -0600, Sven Gothel wrote:
> > On Friday 04 May 2007 at 10:55, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Let's keep flames in the other thread if we can. Here I want to
> > > discuss the original question, MPlayer's default/preference.
> > > 
> > > In summary, the pro-ALSA side seems to have the following reasons for
> > > wanting ALSA to be default:
> > 
> > How about the behavior, where using an OSS device will block other
> > applications to use the same (if it's not a hardware mixer one, 
> > allowing multiple streams ..).
> 
> Not relevant, if OSS is blocked MPlayer will try ALSA, too. Other
> applications that support both can do this too.
> Or do you mean ALSA apps are blocked when OSS is used? I don't know

I think this is what he means. And it's a good thing. It means MPlayer
will work correctly without some lame GNOME crap suddenly playing
annoying "event sounds" and screwing up performance and A/V sync.

Rich