Re: [Gnash-dev] [PATCH] fix mixing sounds with Gstreamer backend

[Markus Gothe]

Tomas Groth wrote:
> --- Markus Gothe <address@hidden> skrev:
>
> > To be honest I don't think it's feasible...
> >
> > //Markus
> >
> > Hiroyuki Ikezoe wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > 2006-11-09 ($BLZ(B) $B$N(B 19:59 +0900 $B$K(B Hiroyuki Ikezoe
> > $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
> > > > 2006-11-09 ($BLZ(B) $B$N(B 11:11 +0100 $B$K(B Tomas Groth
> > $B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?(B:
> > > > > The patch seems to work fine on my system, but i have a concern about
> > using
> > > > > multiple pipelines. The reason for using the gstreamer adder in the first
> > place
> > > > > was to avoid depending on external adders/mixers, which is now needed
> > with this
> > > > > patch. Is it ok to require the user to have a external mixer? Are such
> > > > > installed and working for every (newer) distro? 
> > > > As far as using ALSA, it seems to be OK.
> > > > I tested on Gentoo and Ubuntu today, the patch works on both. I also
> > > > tested on console running on single user mode, the patch works fine with
> > > > "-r 2" option.
> > > >
> > > > Tomorrow, I will test on FedoraCore, SUSE and NetBSD.
> > > Both FedoraCore6 and SUSE Linux 10.1(GNOME environment) work fine.
> > >
> > > NetBSD does not play any sound even though my patch is not applied.
> > > Though I have to investigate about NetBSD, I am very unfamiliar with
> > > NetBSD.  I need someone to help me.
>
> I got very little experience with *bsd, and none regarding to audio... Though
> it seems netbsd got gstreamer-0.10 pkg, so it should work... Maybe bsd need a
> special audio output sink?
>
> cheers,
>
> Tomas

The pkg-management system in NetBSD has been ported to other platforms, 
I'm using it under IRIX for example. But I think gst-plugins-oss (which 
is in pkgsrc) should do for most old school BSD, i.e OpenBSD and NetBSD.

//Markus