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Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune output bundles
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Sebastian Reitenbach |
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Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune output bundles |
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Tue, 01 May 2012 16:36:18 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 15:32 CEST, Philippe Roussel <address@hidden> wrote:
> Le 01/05/2012 15:18, Philippe Roussel a écrit :
> > Esound is still kicking (but not used anymore on any major linux distro
> > I think) but aRts is a dead project.
> >
> > Thinking about it, I have a question : some time ago Stefan Bidigaray
> > implemented a NSSound backend based on libao. Here's the description of
> > the libao4 package :
> >
> >> Description-en: Cross Platform Audio Output Library
> >> Libao is a cross-platform audio library that allows programs to output
> >> audio
> >> using a simple API on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports:
> >> .
> >> * Null output (handy for testing without a sound device)
> >> * WAV files
> >> * AU files
> >> * OSS (Open Sound System, used on Linux and FreeBSD)
> >> * ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
> >> * PulseAudio (next generation GNOME sound server)
> >> * esd (EsounD or Enlightened Sound Daemon)
> >> * MacOS X
> >> * Windows (98 and later)
> >> * AIX
> >> * Sun/NetBSD/OpenBSD
> >> * IRIX
> >> * NAS (Network Audio Server)
> >> * RoarAudio (Modern, multi-OS, networked Sound System)
> >> * OpenBSD's sndio
> >
> > Why aren't we using NSSound directly ??
>
> Ok, NSSound is too simplistic for a media player but using the same
> library for the backend could be a good idea.
OK, I got the simplistic part, but not the using the same library for the
backend part
We should use NSSound in each of the Output Bundles?
I used NSSound a little bit in AClock.
Sebastian.
>
> Philippe
>