[MPlayer-dev-eng] audio_out.c question

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:04:21AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:51:30AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:02:57AM +0200, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> > > There will be change of the default audio order soon, and it will be
> > > placing alsa before oss, as long as there are no troubles with alsa.
> > 
> > Umm, who decided this? I'm strongly against it! ALSA must die a
> > horrible and slow and painful death like the crap it is.
> 
> In the thread about the new ao_alsa maintainer.  Once we have most of
> the bugs fixed there does appear to be little reason to prefer ao_alsa
> over ao_oss.

IMO it's not ao_alsa that's buggy, but rather ALSA itself. Things like
dmix especially. Unless you have a way to prevent it from fucking up
MPlayer with its hidden forks and such, ALSA should not be default.
IMO ALSA is bad enough that we should be raging/flaming against it to
get people to realize it sucks like we did with gcc 'two point nine
six', not making it default.

Rich