[gst-devel] Entry points for new media hackers

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 10:23, Ronald Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 03:32, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > Does the mixer stuff autodetect what is present on the machine (ie. OSS
> > > or ALSA, as far as ACME on Linux is concerned)?
> > > Because if it doesn't, it would actually be a regression. And I don't
> > > like regressions ;)
> > AFAIK it checks the current output plugin (the one set via GConf) and
> > requests a mixer from it. So you end up with a mixer for what you have
> > configured, esd, alsa, oss whatever.
> 
> No. It autodetects it all. This is why I needed things like
> propertyprobe, fixed categories, etc. I can autodetect it *fully* now.
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Very good stuff. I didn't expect less from you ;)

> > The only thing missing are some of the mixer implementations...
> 
> Well, we have ALSA (0.9) and OSS, that's more than ACME,
> gnome-volume-applet of gmix ever had. We hope to have a Solaris plugin
> some day, too.

Heh? ACME has OSS and ALSA as well, my man.

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something.