Re: What Parts of Linux Audio Simply Work Great? (was Re: [linux-audio-dev] Best-performing Linux-friendly MIDI interfaces?)

From: Lars Luthman <larsl@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Jun 15 2005 - 12:50:11 EEST

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 20:52 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 21:16 +0200, Jay Vaughan wrote:
> > b) an [mplayer/skype] patch-fest to bring them in line with that
> > strategy using actual source changes (where possible)
>
> Skype is closed source and the mplayer developers are a pain in the ass
> to deal with due to blatant pro-OSS (as in /dev/dsp) bias. If it were
> easy these would have been fixed long ago.

Mplayer already has support for a lot of different audio interfaces
(including ALSA and JACK). I don't know how good or stable it is, but
I've never had any problems using them.

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