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

[chriswareham at chriswareham.demon.co.uk]

riccardo.magliocchetti at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi Riccardo,

Thanks for the bug references. I hadn't tried the Pulseaudio backend, as it
appeared to be disabled in the 0.8.0 release. Pulseaudio itself does work on
NetBSD, so I will try the current source of swfdec from the Git repository and
see if I can get audio working.

Cheers,

Chris