[Swfdec] Resurrect OSS support for non-ALSA operating systems

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

chriswareham at chriswareham.demon.co.uk ha scritto:
> Hi,

Hi Cris,

> I have been trying to update NetBSD's swfdec and browser plugin packages to
> 0.8.0, but have been unable to get audio support working. Judging by the source
> repository, OSS support was removed from swfdec during the 0.7.x series with a
> comment that it was unmaintained. This means that with ALSA support the only
> working option, audio only works on Linux. If the OSS support was resurrected, I
> would be prepared to maintain it (for NetBSD at least). I would also contact the
> maintainer of OpenBSD's swfdec package to see if he's willing to help test on
> that platform.

There's a pulseaudio backend available that will work on your platforms, 
please give it a try. If you have issues with pulseaudio backend over oss 
report them. Unfortunately that's not very popular. Then if you are still 
sure to ressurect OSS please take a look at these for reference:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13772
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14875

thanks,
riccardo