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

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 15:32 CEST, Philippe Roussel <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.

OK, I got the simplistic part, but not the using the same library for the 
backend part
We should use NSSound in each of the Output Bundles?

I used NSSound a little bit in AClock.

Sebastian.

>
> Philippe
>