[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #460: Pulseaudio problems with OSS 4.1 and/or libcanberra 0.10

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#460: Pulseaudio problems with OSS 4.1 and/or libcanberra 0.10
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  Reporter:  jlibster      |       Owner:  lennart
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  closed 
  Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:         
 Component:  module-oss-*  |    Severity:  normal 
Resolution:  duplicate     |    Keywords:         
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Changes (by lennart):

  * status:  new => closed
  * resolution:  => duplicate

Comment:

 PA has nothing to do with Vorbis playback. Or are you saying they use lc
 without Vorbis support? That would be weird.

 OSS4 is not really supported by PA. OSS is obsolete. Nonetheless we have
 an OSS module in PA. But that supports only the well-known cross-platform
 OSS3 API. While the OSS4 folks claim OSS4 is compatible it actually is
 not. In certain ways it introduces new behaviour that is not documented
 and breaks PA. See #247. That said it is probably easy to fix PA for OSS4.
 It's just that noone has shown interest in actually doing this. Patches
 welcome.

 libcanberra supports multiple backends, depending on how you configure it
 at compile time and runtime. If you are building it yourself then you
 probably haven't enabled all necessary backends correctly.

 If PA freezes for you, please provide a backtrace as documented here:
 http://www.pulseaudio.org/wiki/Community#PatchesBugsTranslations

 This bug reports mixes up a lot of different issues. Please create
 seperate bug reports for different issues. Also, please report libcanberra
 bugs to http://bugs.freedesktop.org.

 I am now closing this bug since the main issue apparently is the OSS4
 incompatible which we already have a bug about (#247).

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