Re: [Gap-dev-discuss] Cynthiune output bundles

[Philippe Roussel]

Le 01/05/2012 15:18, Philippe Roussel a écrit :
> Esound is still kicking (but not used anymore on any major linux distro
> I think) but aRts is a dead project.
> 
> Thinking about it, I have a question : some time ago Stefan Bidigaray
> implemented a NSSound backend based on libao. Here's the description of
> the libao4 package :
> 
>> Description-en: Cross Platform Audio Output Library
>>  Libao is a cross-platform audio library that allows programs to output audio
>>  using a simple API on a wide variety of platforms. It currently supports:
>>  .
>>   * Null output (handy for testing without a sound device)
>>   * WAV files
>>   * AU files
>>   * OSS (Open Sound System, used on Linux and FreeBSD)
>>   * ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture)
>>   * PulseAudio (next generation GNOME sound server)
>>   * esd (EsounD or Enlightened Sound Daemon)
>>   * MacOS X
>>   * Windows (98 and later)
>>   * AIX
>>   * Sun/NetBSD/OpenBSD
>>   * IRIX
>>   * NAS (Network Audio Server)
>>   * RoarAudio (Modern, multi-OS, networked Sound System)
>>   * OpenBSD's sndio
> 
> Why aren't we using NSSound directly ??

Ok, NSSound is too simplistic for a media player but using the same
library for the backend could be a good idea.

Philippe