[gst-devel] Sink autodetect and async state change

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:55:38PM +1200, Steve Baker wrote:
> The only thing I need to do is to make the esdsink test fail if esd
> isn't already running - like add a no-spawn property to the element.

This is already the case.  AFAICT, nothing actually does this --
libesd (optionally) opens the OSS device as a backup, causing much
confusion and pain to all the users who _think_ that they're using
esd, but are getting unexpected behavior when multiple apps try to
play sound.



dave...