Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Which API to use for simple clients?
From: Nick Ing-Simmons (nick_AT_ing-simmons.net)
Date: Fri Jan 02 2004 - 22:35:38 EET
The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List <linux-audio-dev_AT_music.columbia.edu> writes:
>> 2. Audio::* Perl modules.
>
>I like your Audio::Play module,
Thanks it is always good to hear that :-)
>it's the only Perl module I've been able to find that actually *works* for
>playing audio on Linux (Audio::DSP apparently has memory leaks, and Audio::OSS
>is just too complicated, and seriously lacking documentation).
>
>> Both have existing /dev/dsp style backends at present, which have been
>> working fine. But recently (SuSE 9.0 install?) when run under ALSA emulation
>> of /dev/dsp they both started producing segfaults - "after program had
>> exited", (neither valgrind nor gdb can give any info on the fault).
>
>I cannot reproduce this on Suse 8.2 with an M-Audio Delta 66 card, but that
>card has other problems with the OSS emulation - I can only get it to play to
>ALL channels at once, which is kind of annoying when you have 6 out channels.
I didn't have any trouble on SuSE8.2 on the laptop either, it started when I
did an upgrade to SuSE9.0. The desk top is still on 8.2 and still works.
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