[Swfdec] [Bug 14875] crash with oss backend if /dev/dsp can't be opened

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14875





--- Comment #5 from Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo at datahost.it>  2008-09-12 07:27:03 PST ---
The problem (In reply to comment #4)
> People,
> This is a mistake in my opinion.
> IMHO, OSS 4 is out and is really much better than ALSA (kernel mode mixing,
> independent volume control for applications, ...).
> OSS 4 is widely used as sound system in Solaris, FreeBSD, Unixware and Linux.

I think if someone step up to ressurrect, improve and maintain oss audio
backend it can be put back. I have tried to do this myself with the patches
posted here and at bug 13772. And failed :(

> If you plan to make swfdec portable, keep OSS supported is a nice thing :)

There is a pulseaudio backend for that and other purposes. But i have to agree
that pulseaudio could be a bit painful at the moment. But as you can see from
bug 
13772#c12 is the swfdec future.


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