<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/9/27, Arjan van de Ven <<a href="mailto:arjan@fenrus.demon.nl">arjan@fenrus.demon.nl</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 18:38 -0500, Fibonacci Prower wrote:<br>> Hello,<br>><br>> Is there any reason why the alsa-oss package isn't part of Fedora? It<br>> has been said before (most notably in the Fedora forum) that OSS
<br>> emulation modules are enabled by default, and therefore alsa-oss is<br>> obsolete, but aoss provides extra functionalities impossible to<br>> achieve with the kernel modules, such as software mixing of output,
<br>> which are very useful for proprietary apps (Flash, Skype, etc) that<br>> use only OSS.<br>><br>> <a href="http://alsa.opensrc.org/aoss">http://alsa.opensrc.org/aoss</a><br>> "Usage of aoss is preferred over kernel-level OSS emulation because if
<br>> you need use the PCM plugin layer, enabling the use of the Dmix Plugin<br>> or asym."<br><br><br>to be honest, aoss sucks too. In fact any emulation solution so far is<br>pretty crappy in one way or the other ;-(
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But it's the best we've got so far. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It has been how long since ALSA took over? It's time to phase OSS out<br>entirely....
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What about Flash & Skype? Should we wait for new versions using ALSA to be released in 208, and stop using them meanwhile?<br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">(and skype is afaik even from after the alsa release so they have for<br>sure no excuse at all!)
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But they still use OSS - try to convince them to switch to ALSA.<br>
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