[MPlayer-dev-eng] audio_out.c question

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:56:04PM +0200, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Thursday 23 March 2006 18:56, Rich Felker wrote:
> 
> > IMO it's not ao_alsa that's buggy, but rather ALSA itself.
> 
> Though I've probably been more frustrated by Alsa, since I've actually
> tried use it in the past, I'm less pessimistic about this. Have you ever
> had a look at the Alsa API? I haven't yet met anyone who after reading
> the docs and api could tell me how to actually use Alsa :) So, I'm holding
> out hope for that it's ao_alsa that was buggy and not Alsa itself...

The API is exactly what's wrong with ALSA. It's disgusting
windows-ism: you have to use a bloated userspace library to interface
with the hardware rather than unix way (ioctl).

Rich